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  31. <title>At long last, my re-education &#8216;coach&#8217; has been chosen</title>
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  40. <description><![CDATA[But I will not submit until if the proceedings are to be behind closed doors Jordan Peterson: “We look at Carney and we don’t pay any attention to politics &#8230; and so we see someone who looks like a banker...]]></description>
  41. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4><strong>But I will not submit until if the proceedings are to be behind closed doors</strong></h4>
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  43. <p><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 0px;">Jordan Peterson: “We look at Carney and we don’t pay any attention to politics &#8230; and so we see someone who looks like a banker from the 1990s, when everything was just fine in Canada.” Photo by ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP via Getty Images/File<br />
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  48. <p>I don’t know if Canadians have the interest or the patience to submit themselves yet another time to another chapter of the interminable saga of the conflict that I have been embroiled in for what seems like forever with the relatively newly renamed Ontario College of Psychologists and Behaviour Analysts. I know I’m sick and tired of the whole affair, having moved out of the country in no small part in consequence of the prejudice, ideologically-motivated shenanigans, false morality and petty power mongering of that august body.</p>
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  56. <div class="ad__label__center">I ran afoul of the worthies who run that incomprehensible organization for reasons that are not sufficiently clear to me and appear to be even more opaque to them. I’ll summarize the situation as best I can, nonetheless, so that we are all on the same page, insofar as that is even possible. I was charged by my professional organization, responsible for ensuring the public is properly served by psychologists, with something approximating unprofessional conduct for my behaviour on social media — particularly on X, when it was still Twitter. Here is a summary of my crimes (and I say crimes because the legal cost of breaking these rules is high, the punishment severe — loss of my professional license and the disgrace associated with that — and lawyers and the courts are almost certain to be involved).</div>
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  61. <p>I objected to an actress who was subjected to the entirely barbarous and unforgivable although voluntary removal of her breasts advertising that fact proudly to her multitude of fans, many of whom were exactly the kind of star-worshipping and therefore highly influenceable young women maximally susceptible to the dangerous social contagion that is camouflaged under the evil rubric of “gender affirming care.” Since I made that objection, none other than the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has decided that there is a fundamental and inalienable difference between men and women. Furthermore, that country and many others (including the Netherlands where the horror originated) have concluded that there is little evidence that such “care” produces anything but terrible harm, and have banned such procedures for minors. In addition, incontrovertible evidence has emerged that the organizations who pushed for the widespread adoption of such appalling treatment and described it as a moral and scientific necessity were corrupt, unqualified, manipulative and even sadistic ideologues pushing a pathological falsehood.</p>
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  64. <p>No crime there, apparently, on my part, let’s say, with the wisdom of retrospection — although in Canada a nurse, Amy Hamm of British Columbia, recently had her life destroyed (that is, she was sanctioned by her professional college and then fired by her employer) for having the temerity to support the world’s most famous author, J.K. Rowling, in the latter’s insistence that trans activists and their idiot movement of narcissists and psychopaths pose a genuine danger to sanity, women and society.</p>
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  69. <p>What else was deemed evidence of my guilt? I criticized our dearly departed leader, Justin Trudeau, for his progressive idiocy, and threw in a former staff member of his and an Ottawa city councillor for good measure. They all richly deserved the criticism and much more and had worked diligently and for a long time to earn it.</p>
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  74. <p>I pointed out on the world’s most famous podcast that the economic models of doom that the climate apocalypse mongers have been foisting on the public and demoralizing young people for decades with were a pack of antihuman lies, founded on shaky climate “models,” which (1) do not indicate an emergency even by the admission of the modellers themselves and pointing out (2) that models are hypotheses, not data. That criticism is looking pretty good now, too, as Germany suffers tremendous economic decline in consequence of the green idiocy; as the U.K. and the U.S. have abandoned much of the Net Zero moralizing; as even Canadians, shocked by Trump, have realized that we will languish and perish without the fossil fuels the bloody deluded greens have worked so hard and so utterly counterproductively to demonize. So no crime there, either, ladies and gentlemen.</p>
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  77. <p>Finally, although there were perhaps a scattering of other “missteps,” I pointed out that valorizing a morbidly obese model whose health and beauty was insisted upon (or else) by the dangerous mob known as the “body positivity” movement (and on the cover of Sports Illustrated, no less) was not an idea in keeping with any sane notion of beauty, athleticism or health. In a time where a substantial proportion or even a majority of the population is suffering from severe metabolic disease, brought about by a diet far too high in sugar or the carbohydrate equivalent, that looks like a deadly accurate observation, as well, rude though it might be.</p>
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  82. <p>For pointing out these simple and once self-evident truths I was removed from Twitter (although reinstated by Elon Musk) and sentenced by the College in question to a course of re-education of unspecified duration and expense at the hands of a social media expert, whose expertise was far from established, who was going to teach me God only knows what. I appealed my sentence to the higher courts of Canada, on the grounds of free speech, which has terrifyingly little protection in our fine country, and lost. Those concerned about such niceties for themselves and their children are advised to take note.</p>
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  85. <p>It is also important that none of these complaints had anything to do with my conduct with my clients as a practicing psychologist, and none of the accusations upheld by the College were brought forward by people who had any direct or even second-party contact with me.</p>
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  90. <p>In the aftermath of their pyrrhic victory — the rejection of my appeal — the College then added a whole other set of demands to the original order, many of which violated their own policies, including: that I attend the retraining sessions in person, at a law office in downtown Toronto, instead of participating virtually (a ruling designed for maximum inconvenience and hypocrisy, given that the authorities in question conduct much of their own business virtually, and that they knew full well I travel continually). Furthermore, I was to agree to keep all the proceedings as well as the identity of the hypothetically expert retrainer confidential. A transcript would be produced, of the retraining sessions, and I could get a copy, but only if I agreed not to make any of it public. Finally, I was not provided with the contact information of said trainer, even though it is a condition of the College that a malefactor being disciplined has the responsibility to do exactly that. I might also point out that arranging all this took far more than the few months allotted for the exercise — again, by the College’s own policies. I presume that has something to do with the right of the accused to a timely intervention, as well as ensuring a quick response on his or her part. I was ready to go, as I indicated, and very publicly — but the College was not.</p>
  91. <p>Being exactly the sort of recalcitrant offender that I am — and someone very likely to reoffend in the future, as far as the College was concerned — I rejected their machinations, on the grounds that the “confidentiality” they were insisting upon was there, to the degree that it existed at all, to protect me, and not them, and that I was willing to forego that protection entirely, convinced as I was and am of the absolute corrupt idiocy of this whole endeavour. The proof? I want it all public, so that people who are interested can decide for themselves what is going on (ideally, in the College’s estimation, behind closed doors, which is precisely the operating principle of the arbitrary authoritarian). I also rejected their conditions for the intervention, including the in-person attendance at the offices of a somehow involved third party. This tied their tails in knots for months. Why? Because they knew perfectly well that making any of this truly public would cause no end of scandal, given the essential validity of my initial comments, the impossibility of the retraining exercise, and the strange status of the expert retrainer.</p>
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  94. <p>In the last weeks, in any case, the College has re-established contact, after months of unnecessary delay, which occurred in violation of their own order and guidelines. They have made me an entirely new offer, all the while insisting that this was their intent all along, which it most clearly was not.</p>
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  99. <p data-async="">All they really want, it turns out, is one two-hour session, which will not involve any “social media” training. This will be conducted by a man — one Harry Cayton — a citizen of the U.K., who is neither social media expert, according to the College and is definitely not a psychologist. So who and what is he? His field of expertise, such as it is, remains opaque and mysterious, and his suitability to be involved in such an affair, entirely unspecified, although his website portrays him as <a href="https://www.harrycayton.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-evt-val="{&quot;control_fields&quot;: {&quot;mparticle&quot;: {&quot;keys&quot;: {&quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;click_source_type&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;anchor_text&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;target_url&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;layout_section&quot;}, &quot;mp_event_type&quot;: &quot;Navigation&quot;, &quot;extra_keys&quot;: [&quot;click_vertical_position_percentage&quot;, &quot;click_vertical_position_pixels&quot;]}}, &quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;in-page link&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;\u201can internationally recognized advisor on professional regulation and governance.\u201d&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;https://www.harrycayton.net/&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;in-page-link&quot;}" data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click">“an internationally recognized advisor on professional regulation and governance.”</a></p>
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  104. <p>If that is the case, and he has true expertise, why not make the discussion public? If I am the intransigent fool, and he is the wizard to set things right, why not bless everyone interested with his wisdom, and allow them to participate in the restructuring of my psyche and eventual enlightening? Why the concern with confidentiality?</p>
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  107. <p>The brief and apparently harmless and oh-so-reasonable meeting now insisted upon ever-so-benevolently by the College can also now apparently be undertaken remotely, even though that was initially out of the question. Furthermore, the target in question — me — is only to be “coached,” no doubt ever so gently, and will be encouraged to “review, reflect on, and ameliorate his professionalism in public statements.”</p>
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  112. <p>That’s an exact quote, and it reflects ever so ironically and comically the blatant stupidity and carelessness in concept, word and deed at work here. It is not my “professionalism,” boys and girls, but my apparent lack thereof, that is to be ameliorated. That’s a crucial distinction, and the error is telling, in my estimation. Words matter, which is why I choose mine carefully, and am willing to make them public. Not only did the College get the intent wrong, in their last written missive, but they literally reversed it. A trained psychologist of a certain psychoanalytic bent might regard that not as a mere mistake, but as precisely the kind of Freudian slip that reveals the deeper truth, as such slips are wont to do.</p>
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  115. <p>It is in fact (and so perversely) precisely my professionalism, manifest in my willingness — nay, duty — to say what I thought that the College indeed wishes most devoutly to “ameliorate” by this re-education, which is now described so softly as “coaching.” After all, we’re all friends here, right, working together for the same aim.</p>
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  120. <p>I think not, and up yours.</p>
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  125. <p>What is really going on here, and why should Canadians care? I am essentially being offered a very particular form of bribe by my professional betters: “Dr. Peterson, we have backed down on every demand, excepting two, which no reasonable person would deny us. You will now therefore be subject only to a minimal intervention and, if you agree to make the proceedings confidential, all this maddening trouble will just go away.”</p>
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  130. <p>The troubled, weak and even damaged and sick part of me is inclined to throw in the towel. This has been a horrible experience: a decade long, stunningly, even internationally, public, fractious beyond compare, very difficult for my family, and exceedingly expensive — almost three quarters of a million dollars to date. I could be free, with a stroke of my pen and a few admittedly painful hours. Is that not what a reasonable person would do? The College is certainly endeavouring to provide a deal, much different than their original demands, designed to make any continued refusal reflect badly on me, particularly among those already inclined to be skeptical of my claims to moral virtue.</p>
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  133. <p>But I know in the depths of my soul — and I take such things with dead seriousness — that it is a grievous error to kowtow to petty tyrants, no matter how well cloaked in moralism and well-meaning. In fact, I believe that it is imperative above all else, perhaps, not to falsify thought and words, even by omission. It is this that I have learned in consequence of my decades of studying just how the forces of oppression and malevolence prevail. God granted Abraham even the redemption of Sodom and Gomorrah if 10 men good and true could be found in the environs of those doomed cities. We are all called upon to be one of those 10.</p>
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  138. <p>In consequence, I had my lawyers (with their blessing, note) inform my professional body in writing that their request for confidentiality is unacceptable. I will record whatever proceedings are mandated, all bureaucratic protestations to the contrary, just as I have continually claimed and insisted. Then, the public — the very people hypothetically being protected by the College — can decide for itself, if it cares, who has something to reveal and who has something to hide.</p>
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  141. <p>Why, though, should anyone care?</p>
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  146. <p>Because these proceedings are arbitrary, unjust, incompetent and insane; because if these camouflaged self-righteous confused bureaucrats can corner and silence me, given all my resources and reach, they can silence anyone — and that is exactly and precisely the point. If I capitulate, and allow all or even any of this to take place in secrecy, all those who occupy positions of authority merely to enjoy the arbitrary power will be emboldened. That will not be good for Canada, as a country — the Canada where my son and his family still live, and where I plan still to spend much time — or for its far-too-asleep and complacent citizens.</p>
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  151. <p>And it is precisely the fact that I was unwilling to be silenced to begin with that was my true crime, all protestations by the midget authoritarians to the contrary. Nothing has changed, despite the niceness of the most recent offer.</p>
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  156. <p>Do your worst, you contemptible bastards — but don’t be thinking that you will have the advantage of invisibility. It is corruption, not peace, order and good government, that thrives in the darkness.</p>
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  161. <p>We’ll see who blinks.</p>
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  192. <title>Net zero alarmism is a mental illness</title>
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  201. <description><![CDATA[Climate hysteria, and policies to ‘cure’ it, are the work of a cabal of ill-informed narcissistic worshippers of fear and force Credit: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire An anecdote, to begin. In 2023, I was sentenced in Canada by the Ontario College...]]></description>
  202. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4><strong>Climate hysteria, and policies to ‘cure’ it, are the work of a cabal of ill-informed narcissistic worshippers of fear and force</strong></h4>
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  205. <p>An anecdote, to begin.</p>
  206. <p>In 2023, I was sentenced in Canada by the Ontario College of Psychologists and Behavioural Analysts <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/01/jordan-peterson-podcast-canada-decline-twitter-free-speech/">to an unspecified period of professional “re-education</a>” for what has been deemed my unprofessional conduct. If I refused to comply, then the college indicated its duty to revoke my professional licence as a clinical psychologist.</p>
  207. <p>I said that I would comply, although insisting – despite the college’s entreaty – that I would make every detail of that re-education painfully public.</p>
  208. <p>Part of my unprofessionalism was apparently illustrated in the submission of the entire transcript by a random complainant to said college of a conversation I had with <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/joe-rogan/">Joe Rogan</a> on his podcast, accompanied by the allegation that I had stepped out of my lane as a psychologist.</p>
  209. <p>How? By daring to share my opinion that the economic models purporting to indicate catastrophic future danger caused by the apparently impending climate change apocalypse were false and unreliable and by implying something that requires the further analysis this column offers: that there are non-scientific, indeed psychological, reasons that such models were and are generated and promoted in the first place.</p>
  210. <p>The complainant had never received any professional services from me, let it be noted. Furthermore, the “re-education” has never been scheduled, despite my agreement to submit to the process, and their publicly stated decision to proceed, because the college appears unable to find anyone at all anywhere willing to act as said re-educator.</p>
  211. <p>Why am I telling you this? First, because the anecdote provides evidence for the genuine social and psychological danger in speaking out against the <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/06/20/just-stop-oil-have-lost-at-life/">pretensions of the mad green mob</a>; and second, because the claims that climate change terror is scientifically justified have to be enforced by entrenched propagandistic bureaucratic inquisitors rather than proved scientifically and assessed through genuine discussion in the public arena.</p>
  212. <p>And with that, on to the real show.</p>
  213. <p>Why might a psychologist be qualified to discuss issues of climate change, anyway? It isn’t as if my opinion on psychological matters is appropriate, say, when it comes to the validity of Einstein’s equations describing general relativity. It is therefore clearly the case that there are issues in the scientific realm that my education and ability should make me cautious in assessing as a professional, speaking in the public domain.</p>
  214. <p>But there are important – nay, crucial – differences between the mathematics of advanced physics and the doomsaying climate apocalypse narrative. The former has had the validity of its claims demonstrated by passing every crucial test of prediction for a century; the latter has failed continually when put to the test – so much so that “global warming” turned suddenly into “<a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/climate-change/">climate change</a>” sometimes in the last decade or so because the former phraseology proved untenable both conceptually and practically.</p>
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  219. <p>Here is the crucial question: is the climate apocalypse narrative just a scientific theory? Or is it instead a system of belief, unmoored from the objective world, with essentially psychological factors playing the primary role in its initial formulation, current maintenance and widespread dissemination? If the former, then I’m out of my wheelhouse as a commentator, and deserve, arguably, to be called on it. If the latter, however, then I am in my true element, as a psychologist, trained in the analysis of belief – and, more importantly, ethically bound as such to indicate falsehood in conceptualisation where I see it.</p>
  220. <p>And, with regard to that distinction: I have come to conclude, after much detailed consideration (informed by my professional training and experience as researcher and clinician), that the climate doomsayers are possessed by an ideology <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/16/lies-judge-tells-just-stop-oil-demonstrators/">much more akin to a psychogenic epidemic</a> than they are purveyors of any information remotely scientific.</p>
  221. <p>Might I point out, as well: even if I’m wrong (and I’m not) such a suggestion from a credible psychologist is at least worthy of evaluation as an alternative explanation for our current cultural, political, economic and psychological predicament.</p>
  222. <p>The scientific claim is that the evidence for cataclysmic climate change is undeniable. The counterclaim, psychologically, is that those who make such a statement are acting out the dictates of a set of ideas that are not scientific, but much more something akin to an ideological <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/10/16/climate-change-cult-now-owes-religion-rationality/">or even religious movement</a>, unrecognised though that may be to the holders of the doctrine.</p>
  223. <hr />
  224. <h2 class="u-heading-size-large u-heading-style-normal">The historical origins of climate doomism</h2>
  225. <p>Why might this counterclaim be credible? Let’s analyse the situation historically, first, to give us some sense of how the climate change ideas came about. Such analysis sheds substantive light on the motivation for holding and promoting – even insisting upon the validity of – such ideas.</p>
  226. <p>In the late nineteenth century, Thomas Huxley, the prominent Victorian scientist (Darwin’s famous bulldog, and grandfather of the famous author and psychedelic pioneer Aldous Huxley), was commissioned to investigate the sustainability of commercial fisheries. Huxley argued that oceanic resources were essentially inexhaustible. He believed that human activities could never scale to the point where fish populations might be affected in the vast waters of the world. This idea of natural inexhaustibility, driven by the context and scientific understanding of the time, maintained influence over public perception for many decades.</p>
  227. <p>It wasn’t until the mid-twentieth century that environmental awareness began to shift seismically in the opposite direction. The publication of Rachel Carson’s <em>Silent Spring</em> in 1962 was one notable watershed moment in that shift. Carson’s work highlighted the allegedly <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/09/cocktail-of-chemicals-polluting-coastal-waters/">detrimental systemic effects of pesticides</a>, challenging Huxley’s presumption that the natural world was large enough to remain immune to human activity.</p>
  228. <p>The environmental movement galvanised by that book experienced another major motivational boost when Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich published <em>The Population Bomb</em> in 1968. Ehrlich’s writing emphasised overpopulation as a threat to global well-being, in the specific form of resource depletion and the broader form of general environmental degradation.</p>
  229. <p>His work directly influenced the so-called Club of Rome, which published <em>The Limits to Growth</em> in 1972. That work further associated environmental catastrophe with population growth and economic expansion, insisting that “unchecked growth” would inevitably produce a panoply of severe societal and environmental crises.</p>
  230. <p>All this work was predicated on the Malthusian presumption that human populations could be modelled as exemplars of simpler biological organisms, and that we were destined to exhaust the intrinsically limited range of so-called “natural resources” provided to us in the biosphere. This simple biological modelling completely ignored the fact that human beings are unique in their ability to innovate – to radically transform not only the availability of any given “natural resource” but to produce revolutions in the very idea of what constitutes such a resource.</p>
  231. <div><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-46911" src="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/TELEMMGLPICT000002359571_17479162695330_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqLUnw7J0N7XUgljOV2cnJZTlPXAu0p3NtgZumIx9lFXo.png" alt="" width="960" height="606" srcset="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/TELEMMGLPICT000002359571_17479162695330_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqLUnw7J0N7XUgljOV2cnJZTlPXAu0p3NtgZumIx9lFXo.png 960w, https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/TELEMMGLPICT000002359571_17479162695330_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqLUnw7J0N7XUgljOV2cnJZTlPXAu0p3NtgZumIx9lFXo-300x189.png 300w, https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/TELEMMGLPICT000002359571_17479162695330_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqLUnw7J0N7XUgljOV2cnJZTlPXAu0p3NtgZumIx9lFXo-768x485.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px" /></div>
  232. <div><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 0px;">Thomas Malthus, best known for his theories on population growth Credit: Hulton Archive<br />
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  234. <p>Examples of the latter? The shift from whale oil to petroleum at the end of the nineteenth century; the green revolution that has enabled us to feed billions of new people; our ability to make complex computational machines from the same chemicals that make up sand.</p>
  235. <p>In case it has to be said (and it does): the imprisoned bacteria that meet their Malthusian fate after they consume all available resources in their artificially limited petri dish are simply not characterised by the same ability. In consequence, they do not serve in any way as a valid let alone self-evidently true “scientific model” for the destiny of the human species.</p>
  236. <p>The modern green movement emerged from precisely these over-simplistic biological-model precursors – but not only these. The revolutionary progressives soon noted the fortunate confluence between the essentially anti-industrial <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/environment/2019/07/10/stand-david-attenborough-neo-malthusians-want-control-lives/">ethos of the Malthusian environmentalists</a> and the anti-capitalist doctrines favoured by those on the far-Left. This meant the emergence of the alliance between the greens and the “progressives” that we see dominating one pole of the spectrum of political discourse today – this despite the fact that all the predictions of both Ehrlich and the Club of Rome failed to come true in the timeframes they themselves deemed relevant.</p>
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  238. <h2 class="u-heading-size-large u-heading-style-normal">A psychological thirst fulfilled</h2>
  239. <p>That’s not all on the psychological front, with regard to the climate catastrophe narrative. It’s not only that the green movement emerged in the unholy alliance between the Malthusian biologists, seized by a notion of the relationship between human beings and the “environment,” and the radical Leftists who were <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/04/18/extinction-rebellion-wrong-capitalism-not-blame-climate-change/">stridently anti-capitalist</a> (even anti-liberal). It’s also that those who purport to adopt the green/Leftist position can advance their reputations in the political environment, by positioning themselves, essentially, as farsighted advocates of the broad ecosystem – even the survival of the planet and by gaining false and unearned social status and credibility in consequence.</p>
  240. <p>Worse yet: it’s that those in the political arena who are willing or even eager to use force and compulsion to control others and advance their own narrowly self-centred personal agendas (electoral success; public acclaim; narcissistic self-aggrandisement) can point to the hypothetical “fact” of impending climate apocalypse to justify the imposition of any and all economic, political, financial and personal restrictions in the name of saving the planet. The man who is currently Prime Minister of Canada, <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/29/carneys-dire-record-bank-of-england-is-a-warning-to-canada/">former Bank of England Governor Mark Carney</a>, says it so well himself. Does he actually understand the implications of his words?</p>
  241. <div><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-46912" src="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/TELEMMGLPICT000425488864_17479155740950_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQf0Rf_Wk3V23H2268P_XkPxc.png" alt="" width="960" height="600" srcset="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/TELEMMGLPICT000425488864_17479155740950_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQf0Rf_Wk3V23H2268P_XkPxc.png 960w, https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/TELEMMGLPICT000425488864_17479155740950_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQf0Rf_Wk3V23H2268P_XkPxc-300x188.png 300w, https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/TELEMMGLPICT000425488864_17479155740950_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQf0Rf_Wk3V23H2268P_XkPxc-768x480.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px" /></div>
  242. <div><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 0px;">Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney Credit: Adrian Wyld<br />
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  244. <p>“Our goal has been to put in place the information, tools and markets so that every financial decision takes climate change into account – to create a financial system in which a company’s contributions to climate change and climate solution are fundamental determinants of its value.”</p>
  245. <p>There is arguably no more totalitarian claim possible than that “every financial decision” must be made subordinate to the decisions of the purveyors of the climate change catastrophe. Why do they make this insistence? Because they are valid defenders of Mother Earth, or because it enables them to justify every decision they make, including those that are clearly and absolutely in their own self-interest? Given the cost (Carney estimates a minimum of two trillion dollars in the next few decades merely from Canadians) shouldn’t a perspicacious observer be at least somewhat suspicious in such a regard?</p>
  246. <p>But who can argue with any preventative “environmental” measures, when the planet itself is held to be at stake – <em>and</em> when the personal cost can be catastrophic (part of forcing “every financial decision,” apparently including whether to keep your job, <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/03/10/carney-says-banks-could-penalised-hold-polluting-assets/">to be governed by climate concerns</a>). But it remains absolutely necessary to note the possibility that such claims of catastrophe can be used by the power-mad to sow fear, even terror, and to capitalise on the opportunity to seize the reins of power in consequence of such manipulation.</p>
  247. <p>Here’s a psychological truism: tyrants manipulate with fear and compulsion. If a “leader” insists that the situation has become so dire that he or she should be given special power, the suspicion should immediately arise: is the emergency real, or dreadfully convenient for the proclaimer? Given the vagaries of human nature, a cautious and wise observer should presume: without certain evidence for the former, the latter should be assumed.</p>
  248. <p>So there’s apparently plenty of reason for a psychologist to be concerned, and to let that concern be known, regardless of cost.</p>
  249. <hr />
  250. <h2 class="u-heading-size-large u-heading-style-normal">The danger of net zero: dirtier energy</h2>
  251. <p>Let’s consider, for a moment, the actual situation at hand with regard to the climate and the hypothetical apocalypse.</p>
  252. <p>First, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change itself – <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/03/20/uns-scientific-climate-report-nothing-confected-hysteria/">the gold standard body for promoting the apocalypse narrative</a> – has admitted itself that there is currently no strong evidence of dangerous climate change in 25 out of the 34 of its own markers.</p>
  253. <p>Furthermore, the IPCC determined that “high confidence” in dangerous change only existed for 3/34 categories, and the panel had to change the definition of such confidence drastically from scientific norms to even manage that. They decided that an 8/10 chance that the evidence was valid was sufficient, when the time-tested scientific standard for such judgement has been set across disciplines at 19/20. There is simply no excuse for this. No paper with such reduced criteria for significance would be published in any respectable scientific journal.</p>
  254. <p>And that is by no means all. Germany has arguably advanced <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/07/21/germans-surrender-driving-license-for-free-public-transport/">farther down the green/Leftist net zero road</a> than any other once-developed country. The consequence? Much more expensive, much less reliable energy, and rapid de-industrialisation. Much more reliance on the Russians and other authoritarian fossil-fuel rich states. Did that at least result in an improvement in net CO2 production, per unit of energy produced? Quite the contrary: not only is energy less available and <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/15/heat-pumps-could-bring-the-german-economy-to-its-knees/">more costly in Deutschland</a> – it is dirtier. Germany completed its nuclear power phaseout in April 2023 (why, if CO2 production is the cardinal problem?), shutting down its last three reactors, which had provided low-carbon electricity (about 6 per cent of the power mix in 2022).</p>
  255. <p>To compensate, coal-fired generation, particularly lignite (brown coal), has remained a significant part of the energy mix. In 2022, coal accounted for one-third of electricity production, up from previous years due to the energy crisis triggered by <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/russia-ukraine-war/">Russia’s invasion of Ukraine</a>. This is only one example of counterproductive movement on the carbon front in that country. Similar outcomes are evidenced in other countries that have moved in the same direction, <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/05/17/ed-miliband-piles-billions-net-zero-costs-without-scrutiny/">not least in the UK</a>. Thus, not only did the “green revolution,” motivated by the climate apocalypse narrative, fail, it failed by its own standards: a failure that is very much certain to accelerate, as desperation sets in on the environmentalist/Leftist front, and the proclivity to use emergency force correspondingly mounts.</p>
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  257. <h2 class="u-heading-size-large u-heading-style-normal">Plant life renaissance</h2>
  258. <p>Shall we also point out another even more annoying skeleton in the closet? Plant life <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/22/dark-oxygen-found-on-ocean-floor-could-change-understanding/">is apparently thriving</a>, on planet Earth, in a manner unparalleled in human memory.</p>
  259. <p>According to no less a source than <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/nasa/">Nasa</a> (despite its stated commitment to the progressive/environmental narrative), our globe has greened substantially, in direct consequence of increased CO2 levels in the last decades (whether that CO2 is of human origin or not). An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries determined that one quarter to one half of Earth’s vegetated lands has shown “significant greening” over the last 35 years. This represents an increase in leaves on plants equivalent in area to two times the continental US.</p>
  260. <p>Read those last two lines again and think for a moment: how dire and immediate would the climate apocalypse actually have to be for such changes to be anything but the best of all possible environmental news?</p>
  261. <p>Note as well that much of this greening has occurred in the semi-arid areas that the climate apocalypse predictors assumed would transform into desert. Why? Because plants can grow in drier areas when there is more available CO2. They can afford to shrink the size of their respiratory openings, which allows them to grow with less water. Even those who believe the evidence of increasing climate-change induced aridity indicate that the effect on plants is likely to be minimal because of increased CO2 production. Furthermore, it appears that plants are perhaps up to one-third more efficient in their uptake of carbon dioxide than previously estimated – a finding that is perhaps unsurprising to anyone who considers how fast plants grow, say, in the spring, and how much variability there is in that growth over a few mere months. Why in the world wouldn’t plants mop up excess plant fertiliser (in the form of atmospheric CO2) when it becomes more easily available? Sometimes being a “scientist” means not refusing to see the absolutely obvious, ideological pre-commitments be damned.</p>
  262. <p>It is also the case, by the way, that crop yields worldwide have improved, rather than declined, in the face of all this excess CO2 “pollution” providing even more evidence that the promised apocalypse will be very long in coming, at least with regard to agricultural production. Finally, we might note that every “advance” on the progressive green front in the West in terms of remediation of CO2 output (and there is little evidence of any success whatsoever on that front) has been <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/07/29/britain-uk-carbon-emissions-compared-to-china/">swamped absolutely and disproportionately by increased output by China and India</a> – countries that might talk a good green game but put their money where their true mouths are.</p>
  263. <p>A perspicacious and pragmatic observer would also note, on the more specifically political front, that the Americans, seeing the writing on the wall, have decided to abandon the <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/the-paris-agreement/">Paris Accords</a>, a climate-apocalypse based set of international agreements. In the UK, the leader of the once pro-net zero Conservatives, Kemi Badenoch, has admitted that the <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/03/17/badenoch-reaching-net-zero-target-by-2050-is-impossible/">once-touted 2050 deadline is “impossible</a>,” although she has fallen short of the complete disavowal of the doctrine that has become necessary. In other areas of the world – Canada, for example – advocates of the net zero policy still arguably appear to have the upper hand, as they do in the aforementioned Germany and in many places in Western Europe, as well as Australia and New Zealand.</p>
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  265. <h2 class="u-heading-size-large u-heading-style-normal">Not too late to save the future</h2>
  266. <p>It’s clearly high time for all that nonsense to come to a stop, as the Americans, who lead the world in wealth, have clearly realised. That is true in no small part because the reasons for the net zero agenda seem to me neither scientific nor economic. They are, in a word, at least in part psychological. Promoting the radical green Leftist agenda provides the promoters, “scientific,” political, and economic, with unearned social and moral status, enabling them to put themselves forward without effort or genuine sacrifice as guardians of the planet. Aggrandised falsely in this manner, they are more able to fulfil their own narcissistic desires, putting themselves forward as <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/18/greta-thunberg-climate-change-hypocrisy-gen-z/">heroes of the environment on the world stage</a>, capitulating to or capitalising on the wilful blindness of their political audience, while appealing so carelessly and dangerously to the destructive anti-capitalist/anti-industrialist envy and moralising of the revolutionary progressive Left.</p>
  267. <p>Why is this a problem, worthy of serious and immediate note? Because the remedies that are touted, in consequence of this psychological situation, are staggeringly expensive; because they will decimate the poor, worldwide, both in the West and in the developing world; because such policies will produce consequences that are detrimental not only economically and politically (given the authoritarian agenda that does and must accompany the net zero agenda) but environmentally – as the record of the greenest of current governments indicates clearly.</p>
  268. <p>It’s time for the <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/09/net-zero-must-end-before-britain-de-industrialised-reform/">true motivation of the net zero zealots</a> to be revealed – not least by psychologists, worthy of the name. The climate panic is the work of a cabal of narcissistic worshippers of fear and force, cloaking themselves in the sheep’s clothing of planetary guardians. It is dreadfully and terribly expensive and stunningly detrimental to the poor who are the hypothetical targets of the ideological largesse of the Left. It will render the West poor enough to make its very survival as free and abundant unlikely, <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/16/china-syber-threat-green-britain/">while simultaneously emboldening the tyrants of China</a>, who care nothing for the idiot posturing of the narcissistic political elite of Europe, North America and the Commonwealth. It will deprive us of the abundance that so much careful work has made possible. It will severely limit the prosperity of our children and grandchildren and the opportunity that would otherwise be before them. It will do all that, by all indications, while simultaneously worsening environmental conditions – as it has in Germany.</p>
  269. <p>Why would we do something so shockingly counterproductive? We return, once again, to psychology: because our leaders can present themselves as morally superior in consequence of their hypocritical and false worship of Mother Nature; because we are inclined to believe such claims, so what we can collectively participate in that false pride by following their lead; because we can all cloak our envy in relationship to the unequal proceeds of the free market system in the guise of environmental activism and fiddle while Rome (<a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/02/19/california-wildfire-costliest-catastrophe-ever-for-insurers/">or LA) literally burns</a>.</p>
  270. <p>So says the disgraced and unprofessional psychologist, standing outside of his wheelhouse. Evaluate the situation for yourselves.</p>
  271. <p>Before your children pay for all of this. With their future.</p>
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  289. <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-46800 size-full" style="margin-bottom: -20px;" src="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/TELEMMGLPICT000418078377_17434326760680_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqA7N2CxnJWnYI3tCbVBgu9T0aesusvN1TE7a0ddd_esI.webp" alt="" width="1280" height="800" srcset="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/TELEMMGLPICT000418078377_17434326760680_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqA7N2CxnJWnYI3tCbVBgu9T0aesusvN1TE7a0ddd_esI.webp 1280w, https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/TELEMMGLPICT000418078377_17434326760680_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqA7N2CxnJWnYI3tCbVBgu9T0aesusvN1TE7a0ddd_esI-300x188.webp 300w, https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/TELEMMGLPICT000418078377_17434326760680_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqA7N2CxnJWnYI3tCbVBgu9T0aesusvN1TE7a0ddd_esI-1024x640.webp 1024w, https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/TELEMMGLPICT000418078377_17434326760680_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqA7N2CxnJWnYI3tCbVBgu9T0aesusvN1TE7a0ddd_esI-768x480.webp 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px" /></p>
  290. <p><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 0px;">Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney</span></p>
  291. <hr />
  292. <p dir="ltr">There are at present two broad visions characterising the western world. That dynamic is playing out very dramatically in Canada as Mark J Carney takes the helm calling for an immediate election, just as it did under Justin Trudeau, whose regime became infamous around the world for its hypocritical “we’ve got your back” faux-compassionate authoritarianism.</p>
  293. <p dir="ltr">This was on full display when the Canadian people – tired of the insane restrictions of the appalling and unnecessary COVID lockdowns – dared to make their displeasure known in Ottawa in the guise of the famous trucker convoy.</p>
  294. <p dir="ltr">They were rewarded for their populist temerity by direct accusations of racism, misogyny and Russian funding by none other than their cowardly Prime Minister, who also used the event as an excuse to turn tail and run and hide instead of facing his justly angry citizenry.</p>
  295. <p dir="ltr">Thankfully, that narcissistic pretender, famous for the name his father made known and painfully few accomplishments of his own, has now vanished from the scene, resigning a few months ago as his Liberals headed toward absolute electoral demolition, falling low enough in the polls so the possibility of their elimination as a registered party loomed large.</p>
  296. <p dir="ltr">Immediately upon his disappearance from the scene, however, he prorogued or suspended the parliament he had in any case previously regarded with nothing but contempt, and setting the stage for his successor, the aforementioned Carney, former Governor of the Bank of England, who previously played the same role in Canada.</p>
  297. <p dir="ltr">After a pro forma campaign, within the ranks of his own party, Mr. Carney was crowned as leader – a result that was absolutely certain from the beginning, as the powers that be had already decided, despite the admittedly weak opposition mounted against him by Trudeau’s Deputy PM, Chrystia Freeland, who only garnered a truly dismal eight percent of the vote.</p>
  298. <p dir="ltr">Despite this – and no doubt as quid pro quo – Ms. Freeland is now a powerful member of Carney’s cabinet, holding the twin Ministries of Transport and Internal Trade. This is par for the course in his new “outsider” administration, which is composed in its entirety of the same ideologically addled and miserable miscreants who led Canada to the very edge of economic and political destruction over the last ten years.</p>
  299. <h3 dir="ltr"><strong>O Canada!</strong></h3>
  300. <p dir="ltr">How bad is it in that once-stellar country; the country of my birth? At the moment, the oil-rich province of Alberta is threatening seriously to leave confederation entirely; the Canadian economy is slated to underperform its most serious 40 developed-country competitors for the next 40 years, and the richest Canadian province is now poorer in terms of average per capita income than the poorest of America’s 50 states.</p>
  301. <p dir="ltr">Take note, as well, with regard to the latter statistic: this is also true of the Europe and the UK that has been implementing Trudeau-and-Carney-like policies for the same period of time. That is not all: crime has radically increased, housing prices have spiraled out of reach, unrestrained immigration is dividing the country, and Canadians hold very little vision of a promising future.</p>
  302. <hr />
  303. <div class="particle-header__main-container">
  304. <div class="particle-header__main-container"><strong><span class="particle-header">Canada&#8217;s unemployment rate<br />
  305. </span></strong><span class="particle-embed-title">Canada&#8217;s unemployment rating has been steadily increasing since 2022, with 6.8 per cent of the population now unemployed. It brings the total number of unemployed people in Canada to 1.5 million – a figure that’s increased by 22 per cent since 2023.</span></div>
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  307. <div><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-46813" src="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Canadas-unemployment-rate2.png" alt="" width="734" height="312" srcset="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Canadas-unemployment-rate2.png 734w, https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Canadas-unemployment-rate2-300x128.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px" /></div>
  308. <div><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 0px;">Statistic Canada</span></div>
  309. <div></div>
  310. <p dir="ltr">Worse, still, the careless – although somewhat salutary bull-in-the-China shop – American President, has terrified Europe into something like a cohesive, though still deluded, unit since his election and has simultaneously served that role for Canadians. Trump has threatened Canada with fate or offered us opportunity as the 51st American state, pronouncing publicly that Canadian dependency on the US economy and military is sufficiently pronounced and appalling to make the country at least barely worth contending with or considering and better off, all things considered, appending itself to the US altogether.</p>
  311. <p dir="ltr">This unexpected (to say the least) maneuver has forced Canadians to consider their national status once again – even the Liberals who, under Trudeau (with Carney lurking like The Lion King’s Scar in the background) decided that the former British Empire dominion was the world’s first “post-national state” with no true identity – the historic British derivation being unacceptable to the bloody Quebec separatists who have bedevilled the country for a century.</p>
  312. <p dir="ltr">To be completely fair, the Liberal vision of Canada’s identity was not entirely null; rather, worse, we were encouraged to view ourselves as purveyors of patriarchal oppression and colonial supremacy – an identity to be ashamed of and hide rather than celebrate. This despite the fact that Canada is, or at least was, a highly desired place of emigration for the truly oppressed.</p>
  313. <p dir="ltr">Sound familiar, Brits? No wonder – it all comes from the same radically anti-Western ideological source.</p>
  314. <h3 dir="ltr"><strong>Carney: the insider’s ‘outsider’</strong></h3>
  315. <p dir="ltr">The unfortunate consequence of Trump’s radically pro-American and careless pronouncements is that Carney has positioned himself as a genuine contender in the coming battle against American tariffs and proclamations of superiority, even though nothing could be farther from the truth. Canadians know little of the man – and that&#8217;s part of his plan.</p>
  316. <p dir="ltr">The fact of the latter’s international maneuvering and the apparent stamp of approval given to him by the Brits, who – in combination with his supposed business experience and elitist educational background – regarded him as capable of serving as Bank of England Governer, have conjoined to convince the citizens of the hapless Northland that he has the expertise and gravitas necessary to put the orange-haired tyrant in his place.</p>
  317. <p dir="ltr">The fact that Trump himself has recently and directly indicated that he would rather negotiate with a weak liberal than a strong conservative and that he is no friend to Poilievre, the Canadian Conservative leader, has not yet pierced the Canadian consciousness. Neither has former UK PM Liz Truss’s recent evisceration of Carney’s performance as said Governor, or the justified skepticism directed toward him by the editors of <em>The Telegraph.</em></p>
  318. <p dir="ltr">It is also telling that Canadians have paid very little attention to Carney’s actual words. He published his book <em>Values: Building a Better World for All in 2021</em>. There is no evidence, despite certain of his recent actions, that the new Canadian PM believes anything different than indicated there.</p>
  319. <p dir="ltr">And what does he believe? Well, he has recently and directly informed Canadians (on no less a platform than Jon Stewart’s <em>Today Show</em>) that he is an “outsider,” who brings a new perspective and approach to the Canadian political landscape.</p>
  320. <p dir="ltr">This is simply untrue – not a mere evasion or twisting of the truth, but a veritable anti-truth. Carney is a consummate insider, serving Justin Trudeau as an economic advisor (enough so that he was considered as Finance Minister in that very administration), while gathering the same old undesirables around him immediately upon becoming PM, and while being, on the personal side, godparent to one of Chrystia Freeland’s children. He couldn’t be more of a Liberal insider if he tried, although it is true (to his detriment) that he has never run for office, which he argues makes him pure, but much more genuinely reveals his utter contempt for the electoral process that essentially characterises the democracy he now governs, while having gathered the approval of less than half a percent of the Canadian electorate.</p>
  321. <p dir="ltr">Carney has called the shortest possible election allowed by Canadian law. The calculation is obvious: better not let Canadians figure out who he truly is, and the untruth that he allegedly opposes one of Trudeau’s more hated policies: the consumer carbon tax. This is a cardinal part of the Net Zero delusions possessing Canadians and UK’s fools and charlatans alike – the derogation and suppression of the fossil fuel industry which – in the Canadian case – is the genuine bedrock of economic performance.</p>
  322. <h3 dir="ltr"><strong>Carney&#8217;s infatuation with Net Zero, DEI, and ESG</strong></h3>
  323. <p dir="ltr">Even a casual purview of Carney’s dreadful book – which contains not a single original or productive idea – indicates that there is perhaps no one in the world who has staked more, intellectually, spiritually and politically, on the Net Zero delusion than Mark J. Carney.</p>
  324. <p dir="ltr">It’s not only something he supports – it undergirds everything he believes. Despite all evidence to the contrary, for him the fictional carbon dioxide apocalypse – that has hypothetically descended upon us – is of sufficient emergency and severity that, in his own words, “all financial decisions” worldwide (and take note of that “all”) have to be retooled in accordance with centralised planning dictates. All this so that the impossible goal of Net Zero becomes an accomplished fact by 2050, cost and consequences be damned. After all: when the planet itself is at stake, nothing is forbidden. How convenient for the totalitarians.</p>
  325. <p dir="ltr">It is a consequence of this that Carney wants to spend two trillion dollars (!) in Canada alone to attain this unattainable and futile end. That’s 200,000 (enough for a house, in a reasonable economy) <em>for every single Canadian family.</em></p>
  326. <hr />
  327. <p class="particle-header__main-container"><strong><span class="particle-header">Canada&#8217;s housing crisis<br />
  328. </span></strong><span class="particle-embed-title">The average house price in Canada when Trudeau took over in November 2015 was 446,000 Canadian Dollars. Nine years later they stood at 732k after peaking at 834k in March 2022.</span></p>
  329. <div><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-46818 size-full" src="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Canadas-housing-crisis3.png" alt="" width="726" height="344" srcset="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Canadas-housing-crisis3.png 726w, https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Canadas-housing-crisis3-300x142.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px" /></div>
  330. <div><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 0px;">Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA)</span></div>
  331. <p dir="ltr">Despite that cost – that impossibility – Carney has no problem proclaiming himself just the man to not only face down the despicable orange-haired villain south of the border, but to bring about some ill-specified industrial “green revolution” in the fossil-fuel dependent frigid northern wasteland he purports to run.</p>
  332. <p dir="ltr">Does he offer a plan for this in <em>Values</em>? Most definitively ‘no.’ He waves his hands and talks about how hydrogen (really? hydrogen?) is going to make Alberta specifically, but Canada more generally, rich and clean beyond imagining, claiming that the new “innovation economy” – released somehow by his green delusions – will magically make itself manifest.</p>
  333. <p dir="ltr">How is that working out in Germany, we might ask, as it rapidly and futilely de-industrialises? How about here in the UK, where power is increasingly unreliable and far more expensive than necessary, and all the manufacturing jobs have shifted to coal-dependent and unrepentantly industrial (and let us not forget communist-to-the-core) China?</p>
  334. <p dir="ltr">Net Zero is only one of Carney’s terrible, unoriginal and counterproductive ideas, all of which have failed when tested on the international front – hence his tail-between-his-legs scuttling away from Europe to lead his own ill-fated country. Canada’s new PM is also an avid advocate of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity: faux-compassionate and delusional niceties that have destroyed, for example, the institutes of higher education that were once august and functional in the West, demolished the credibility of the Democrats in the US, and radically destabilised gender, ethnic and racial relations everywhere in the last 15 years. Furthermore, as if that is not enough, Carney is also perhaps the world’s foremost advocate of the so-called Environmental, Social and Governance movement (ESG) that has poisoned hundreds of corporations, large and small, in the last two decades. And what of that?</p>
  335. <p dir="ltr">In recent years, it has become painfully obvious first that the claims of those pushing such ideas that pursuit of central-planning dictates by large corporations would produce increased financial production (that’s profits, folks) was false, to say the least, and second that companies sufficiently sane to care about their own survival are abandoning the movement in droves. This includes the immense BlackRock and Vanguard, who essentially control an inordinate number of Fortune 500 enterprises and who were pushing ESG with a vengeance to drive home public perception of their own unparalleled level of self-sacrificing morality.</p>
  336. <p dir="ltr">Net Zero is an expensive, insane scam; DEI has ‘DIED’ at its own hand; and the ESG movement has fallen apart everywhere, and fast. Thus, not only has Mark J. Carney has been at the very forefront of the worst ideological notions of the last 20 years – everything he has hypothetically accomplished in relation to those notions has shown itself as rotten, and fallen apart. So, on to Canada, thinks Mr. Carney, so the failure can be…. be what? Duplicated? Extended? But Canadians trust him, because of his pedigree, his very effective capitalising on Trump’s unforced error, and his appalling rushing both the polls and the people.</p>
  337. <h3 dir="ltr"><strong>Canada, and the West, on a knife edge</strong></h3>
  338. <p dir="ltr">This is not good, to say the least. I truly believe that Canada will not survive four, let alone eight, more years of the green, elitist, doomsaying, central planners that ruled under Trudeau and will tromp forward as if on steroids with Carney at the helm. Worse, perhaps – at least on the international front – a vote for Carney will allow the metropolitan class at the World Economic Forum to effectively continue their anti-human machinations, when a defeat for the man and the oh-so-deserving-of-defeat Liberals would put those arrogant technocrat Luciferian elitists in the their proper place.</p>
  339. <p dir="ltr">In this, the most peculiar and surreal of all possible worlds, what happens in once backwoods Canada has become terribly and paradoxically relevant everywhere. The drama confronting the entire West is being played out here, in a front-line manner.</p>
  340. <p dir="ltr">Will we Canucks give in to false apocalyptic fear, victims of the tyrants who use fear and compulsion to justify their authoritarian world and of our own refusal to wake up and take proper responsibility for the future? Or will we dispense with the lies of the global elite, pay attention to the working-class whose essential sensibility has remained on point, use the fossil fuels and nuclear power that the flourishing of the poor and middle class still depend upon absolutely, and maintain the abundance and freedom of the Western world</p>
  341. <p dir="ltr">We’ll see. Canadians, at the moment, entranced by the new burst of patriotism manifested in response to the real carelessness of Trump, are vulnerable to the dangers of Carney, who also appeals to their effortless self-congratulatory shallow environmentalism and pathological Canuck niceness and obedience.</p>
  342. <hr />
  343. <p class="block-headline datawrapper-9OZVC-17l3nl "><strong>What is the number one issue facing Canada today?</strong><br />
  344. Top 10 most-cited responses</p>
  345. <div><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-46821 size-full" src="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/What-is-the-number-one-issue-facing-Canada-today.png" alt="" width="736" height="267" srcset="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/What-is-the-number-one-issue-facing-Canada-today.png 736w, https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/What-is-the-number-one-issue-facing-Canada-today-300x109.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px" /></div>
  346. <div><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 0px;">March 24th, 2025 | Source: Léger</span></div>
  347. <p dir="ltr">And, in the rest of the world? The same battle is being played out in the UK, with Reform playing the role of the Canadian conservatives (and literally so, as the movement is named after a Canadian conservative movement with the same moniker). In Europe, it’s the EU centralists vs the Italian/Hungarian/Swedish/<wbr />Polish and even French and German ascendant populist right.</p>
  348. <p dir="ltr">Dangerous as the latter can be, if the circumstances present themselves, the latter are currently the only alternative to the terrible anti-human doomsayers and false prophets. The latter have been set on their heels by the rise of Trump and the populists in Europe. Carney is their current best hope for continuance and extension.</p>
  349. <p dir="ltr">Heaven help the former British colony, in consequence: we are being led to perdition by the shallowness of our own political consciousness, our moral presumption as “environmentalists” and anti-Americans, and the insane fractiousness of our own threatened identity.</p>
  350. <p dir="ltr">Perhaps we will wise up and elect Poilievre and the Conservatives and buy ourselves some much needed opportunity and time. Perhaps he will, with humility, develop his still untested executive power and economic vision and set the country and to the degree possible the Western world straight.</p>
  351. <p dir="ltr">Anything you Brits and the rest of the world could do to help us wake up and take notice would be more than welcome–including the publication and distribution of this missive. God knows that in our time of crisis we could use some true allies.</p>
  352. <p dir="ltr">In better times, that was the purpose of the Commonwealth so beloved, for example, of our previous Queen. Maybe if we in Canada come to make the correct decision, and turn away from the apocalypse-mongers and moralising de-industrialists, you Brits can take inspiration from our example in the not too distant future.</p>
  353. <p dir="ltr"> Then we could all work together as brothers of the great English common-law tradition and set our course back toward freedom, abundance, and the stars.</p>
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  360. <title>Rape Gangs and the Shadow of Multiculturalism</title>
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  369. <description><![CDATA[Why has the issue of sadistic mass rape on British soil reared its ugly head once again—this time on the international front? There are many reasons, but one is fundamental: the increasingly desperate need, in the West, for a serious...]]></description>
  370. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why has the issue of sadistic mass rape on British soil reared its ugly head once again—this time on the international front?</p>
  371. <p>There are many reasons, but one is fundamental: the increasingly desperate need, in the West, for a serious discussion about the perils of an unthinking and self-aggrandizing multiculturalism – a word that in itself is primarily cliched advertisement for the self-proclaimed admirable and wondrous tolerance of the progressive hypocrites on the left and right alike. It’s time for us in the free world to look at human beings and their various cultures as they truly are, and not as the goodthinkers wish and then so dangerously insist that they must be. This means laying out the stark reality not only of cultural differences but of the proclivity of the worst of people, who are very bad indeed, to use religious affiliation as camouflage for their machinations. </p>
  372. <p>This is a temptation regarded by the ancients as paramount; the use of God’s name “in vain,” which the confused assume merely means don’t swear, but which truly means “do not claim virtue when pursuing the lowest of selfish ends.” This is the sin of the Pharisees, as well, who literally became murderous when Christ called them on their hypocrisy. There is arguably no more widespread pathology of aim plaguing us in the developed world today, excepting perhaps that of pride. It is also the case that manipulators – those, for example, cry “victim” at the drop of a hat as well as outright criminals – are highly prone to cloak themselves in the guise of moral virtue. That’s exactly what puts the most extreme con in the most exceptional of con men.<br />
  373. ~<br />
  374. Before we elaborate on that point, let’s establish a few more basic and simultaneously indisputable facts.  First, democracy is by no means the natural state of man and woman. The vast majority of countries around the world are barely “countries” at all, in the modern Western sense of the world. They are instead unproductive totalitarian hellholes, run by thugs and inhabited, in the main, by the sort of people who either allow themselves to be ruled by the hedonistic and powermad or who are so beaten down and corrupted they envision progress only as the opportunity to rise and perpetuate the same crooked game—this time, as victors. </p>
  375. <p>Let us second abandon the naïve and idiot pretence that women are easily integrated as full and equal partners into functional and productive marriages, families and states, and that such integration is also a default condition. Here’s an alternative view which, as in the case of religious and moral hypocrisy, is much more “natural”: In the absence of constant and disciplined future- and community-oriented socialization, sexual desire runs rampant, not least among young, single men, along with all other forms of present-focused hedonistic and power-mad behavior. Hence the well-established association between the proclivity to rape and otherwise assault and more general criminal conduct.  </p>
  376. <p>Immaturity is the rule, not civilized, self-disciplined conduct. The same can be said of foolishness, as opposed to wisdom. Under such circumstances, unprotected women are not only fair game, particularly when foreign, but responsible by the very fact of their unguarded status and self-evidently wicked attractiveness for whatever dire fate might befall them. This means not only the rape and sadistic abuse of said women, but their blaming and shaming for the provocative fact of their solitariness. This is the default defense and worldview of the worst of men: “she was asking for it.”</p>
  377. <p>A society where women can bring their talents to the table as independent, safe, and respected individuals requires, by contrast, certain stringent psychological and social preconditions: a widely shared view of the value of women as equal, intrinsically, to men; a police and justice system with genuine integrity; material and more specifically hygienic standards associated only with industrialised societies. It also requires effective birth control, and the mores that allow or even encourage its use. These conditions are prohibitively difficult to meet. Furthermore, their existence is taken for granted at our extreme peril – with particularly severe ramifications for the poorly defended and female. </p>
  378. <p>None of these preconditions apply in the default oppressive authoritarian society, where intercourse of any sort between men and women is, in a compensatory fashion, severely restricted and punished, and all forms of sexual psychopathology flourish, in no small consequence. It is nonetheless from precisely such societies that much of the mass immigration that characterizes many Western countries occurs, and has for decades, in consequence of the idiot presumption that these mobile and often desperate people will bring with them none of the terrible presumptions and customs they are hypothetically fleeing. </p>
  379. <p>~</p>
  380. <p>Consider, in that regard, the 195 countries that currently make up the world. A mere 24 of these are true Western democracies, characterised by respect for and existence of freedom, human rights, limited government, separation of church and state and rule of law. That’s one in eight, or 12 per cent. That alone proves that such rule-governed classically liberal democracy is the exception; strongly indicating, at the same time, that the absence of democratic attitude and social order rather than its presence must be assumed as the default. The naïve and reflexively self-aggrandizing Westerner, striving above all to consider him or herself in the best possible light, proclaims instead that deep in the chest of every oppressed person beats a heart longing for responsible freedom. But a totalitarian state is in truth a distributed network of deceit and cruel oppression, more than a mere top-down hierarchy of power. Everyone in a tyranny lies about everything all the time, to everyone, including themselves and those whom they claim to love. This is why removing the putative head, the most obvious dictator, in the revolutionary manner (remember the Arab Spring, or the “liberation” of Libya and Iraq) most frequently produces chaos or even worse oppression. There are many pathways, personal and communal, to rigidity and instability, and very few to responsible freedom, abundance and progress. Thus, immigrants from authoritarian states are most likely to bring with them authoritarian attitudes. </p>
  381. <p>Twenty-four genuine, free democracies. What of the remaining 171, or 88 per cent of the world’s countries? Fifty-nine of them are fully authoritarian, replete with all the horrors such systems entail. Another twenty are chaotic failed states. The remainder are at best a mixed bag, not fully authoritarian, not entirely chaotic, but certainly not thriving democracies – and certainly not the Western countries that the oppressed or predatory of the world flee to, given a choice. </p>
  382. <p>What are the cultural preconditions for civil society and good governance? More specifically, given our quest, what cultural features characterize the 24, versus the rest – particularly the worst of the rest? Forty of fifty or 80 per cent of Muslim majority countries are fully and unabashedly authoritarian. A mere three of the remainder are democracies (Morocco, Turkey, and Indonesia), if the definition is allowed to be approximate and generous. The rest are, at best, a mixed bag. And what of majority Protestant or Catholic countries? One hundred percent of those – Africa excepted, and reasonably so – are highly highly functional free societies. Observation of a track record like that might suggest to a genuinely objective observer a causal connection. </p>
  383. <p>Why the stark difference? None of even the possible reasons look good for those who proclaim that the rewards of multiculturalism are untrammeled and certain. First, in the Islamic world, divine law (Sharia) rules, and it is indisputably the case that the more fundamentalist accounts of Sharia – and, potentially, all accounts – don’t mesh easily with the democratic idea of man-made laws, subject to change and improvement by consensual and voluntary agreement. For Islamist supremacists, God’s law (by their interpretation, of course) is regarded as immutable and superordinate to any human legislation. Does this presumption not stands in virtually absolute opposition to a foundational democratic idea – the sovereignty of the people? </p>
  384. <p>Some might argue that “shura,” the Islamic principle of consultation, is akin to democracy. However, “akin to” is by no means “identical with.” Such differences matter, in the case of fundamental principles, and they matter a lot. Shura is traditionally a consultation among a select group of Islamic scholars or leaders, not an electoral process involving universal suffrage. It is therefore not a voluntarily accepted social contract, subject to equally voluntary update and change, but a variant form of top-down, elite-imposed governance or tyranny. The historical method of leadership selection in the Islamic world (think of the Caliphs) clearly and indisputably reflects this elitism. The same can be said regarding the Imams. </p>
  385. <p>If such bending of the knee among such people and in such states was truly to the one God – ruling validly forever from on high – something might be still be said for it, at least among those who also claim religious inspiration. A thorny problem remains, however: the Word of God, according to who? Islamic totalitarianism, which is far too often rule by immature and hedonistic thug, is likewise far too often submission to the thug’s interpretation of God. These leaves precisely as much room for disagreement about the divine as thugs might be expected to allow, which is none, or else. The idea that Islam should govern all aspects of life, from personal behavior to state laws, also directly conflicts with the democratic principle of pluralism and freedom to choose. Remember, as well, in keeping with all this, that the punishment for rejecting such claims (the price paid for “apostasy”) is, not infrequently, death. </p>
  386. <p>There is no manner in which any of this self-evidently aligns with the Western principles of freedom of thought, religion and expression. It therefore seems incumbent on those who believe that such commensurability exists to prove that it does (particularly given the aforementioned statistical difference between Muslim and Christian majority societies) rather than insisting that the burden of proof be put upon the skeptic of the multicultural project. </p>
  387. <p>The difference between the societies under consideration, bad as it is in general, is clearly worse for women. Traditional Islamic jurisprudence assigns very different rights and roles to men and women. The typical woman in the authoritarian Muslim countries generally requires a male guardian’s permission to marry, travel, or work. Their inheritance share is lesser – typically, half. Men can divorce, unilaterally, with ease, while women cannot. Polygamy is legally allowed in many of the same countries, but polyandry in none. That is by no means all. Women’s political participation is severely restricted, dress codes are frequently or even typically severe (as are punishments for transgression), laws against domestic violence are minimal, or absent, and in some cases marital rape is not recognised or criminalised. Access to education and employment is limited or absent, and women have limited control over their reproductive choices. The judicial systems also operate in ways severely biased against women, with their testimonies often valued at less than men’s, and their access to justice impeded. </p>
  388. <p>If those who inhabit a country cannot treat their own mothers, wives and daughters equally then their track record for tolerating others – including anyone who does not share their attitudes, religious and otherwise – is unlikely to be good. The rape gangs point to this terrible fact. The testimony from the trials indicates a common and obvious disregard, to put it mildly, for the women concerned. Why? Are we to assume that no cultural reasons whatsoever are relevant? Is the possibility that religious belief, however false, is involved to be simply taken off the table? What explanations are then left? The culpability of host society and victim? That seems to be the tack that we have taken, and that’s not so good for us – particularly if we’re wrong – and certainly does nothing for the young women involved except blame them and continue to fail in their protection. And there’s more, with regard to differential vulnerability in relationship to the presumed niceties of the multicultural project. </p>
  389. <p>~</p>
  390. <p>It is an axiom of both psychology and biology that a relationship exists between status or social standing and vulnerability. Animals lower in hierarchical positioning standing have less opportunity and they suffer more. Exactly the same thing holds true for human beings. This means, as the old adage has it, that the working class tends to die of pneumonia when the aristocrats catch cold. This remains true even in advanced societies, where the reality of absolute rather than relative poverty has been substantively ameliorated. “Poorer” is not as terrible as “poor,” but it still has its marked disadvantages. </p>
  391. <p>This means not only that political and cultural elites can flaunt and advertise their admirably open-minded cosmopolitan tolerance, while remaining protected from the worst aspects of the policies they facilitated, but that the burden of their self-serving error will fall squarely on the working class – and, more specifically, on the most vulnerable among them. Those would be, as they always have been, unprotected adolescent females. We have not even allowed ourselves to know the full scale of the disaster than has befallen such girls. How many have fallen prey to the depradations of the rapists? Is is a quarter of a million, a half, or the full Monty? How many cumulative acts of rape have occurred? We don’t know, within an order of magnitude. </p>
  392. <p>And what of those who have fallen victim? First they were raped, brutally. Then they were pilloried or even arrested for their hypothetically disorderly behavior. Then they were told to remain silent for the sake of a social cohesion that doesn’t truly exist, and gaslit when they dared to speak—and all at the hands of those directly charged with their protection. All the while, the progressives wrung their Godforsaken hands about Islamophobia (that term for cowards, collaborators, and fools) and hate speech (that term for those who hate speech). Actual hate, manifested in sadistic and racially motivated gang rape? That was fine, as long as nobody talked about it.<br />
  393. The message to working-class Brits? Know your place, and take your punishment, in the most brutal and concrete possible way. The rapes themselves were sickening, brutal, sadistic, low and criminal; the coverup cowardly, hypocritical and unforgivable. All of it, in a word, evil, of the personal and institutional kind. Hence the admittedly unfortunately delayed but fully justified international outrage. </p>
  394. <p>Consider, in this regard, the plight of the true spokesman for these virginal sacrifices, the hypothetically nefarious and now internationally notorious Tommy Robinson. He is, admittedly, no angel. That primarily class difference in conduct certainly doesn’t seem to matter when the virtuous left is agitating for the economically oppressed, when its existence is so demonstratively attributed to the injustice of the system, rather than the criminality of the perpetrator, but it sure draws attention and condemnation from the same goodthinking people when a working class bloke dares to speak. Who the hell do we require, as a spokesman, under such circumstances?  </p>
  395. <p>Perhaps it is only the monsters—or at least those with the capability for monstrousness—who have the spirit to speak when convention becomes complicit. And remember: not only did Mr. Robinson stand up not to the mad and dangerous rape gang criminals, at the risk of his own skin, but also to their middle- and upper-class protectors and stooges. He did this despite his own unprivileged socioeconomic status. He did this while being pilloried constantly as at least the first approximation of a ‘Nazi’ by everyone who mattered. Who else did even a fraction as well? Let he who is without sin, therefore, cast the first stone.<br />
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  397. <p>In a recent podcast with Winston Marshall, Nigel Farage, leader of the increasingly popular Reform Party, indicated that the majority of British Muslims might well be more concerned about the rape crisis than the typical non-Muslim citizen of the fair isle (not least because of the rising tide of anti-Islam sentiment stirred up by the scandal). Mr. Marshall pushed back on this presumption of majority moderate Muslim stance, however, referring to a Henry Jackson poll indicating that 75 per cent of British Muslims did not believe that Hamas committed rape on October 7. Half agreed, furthermore, that Jews have too much power in the UK. </p>
  398. <p>According to that same March 2024 poll, that attitude extended to the influence of Israel and Jews more generally on American foreign policy. Slightly more than three-quarters held a positive view of Hamas, ominously enough, while 40 per cent believed that MPs on the Israel side of the Israel/Palestine debate should be removed from office. A majority also wanted room set aside for public prayer in non-religious places, compulsory use of Halal food in all schools and hospitals, and legal restriction against displaying a picture of Mohammed. Two additional majority-held opinions stood out starkly: 77 per cent believed it would be desirable to have Islam declared as the national religion, with an equivalent proportion expressing support for the establishment of Sharia law across the UK. </p>
  399. <p>This of course begs a crucial question, apart from shedding doubt on the presumption of a ‘moderate’ majority: why did the immigrants in question leave the countries where such policies are already in place? The answer to that is straightforward: many believe the West can only be improved by the imposition of Muslim practices. After all, the UK, like so much of the rest of what was once Christendom, has declared itself structurally racist, unjust and colonialist. Our security and wealth is deemed by the same accusers a consequence of nothing but theft and oppression. Corrupt, unproductive, poverty-stricken, authoritarian societies are the result of foreign tyrannies imposed upon them, or so the story goes, instead of the fault of themselves,  the states in question, or the reigning culture or religion. We can blame the radical postmodern neo-Marxists and their dismal and resentful Leftist ancestors for laying the groundwork for that set of evasions and rationalisations. That attribution does not ameliorate the associated danger of the views, however. </p>
  400. <p>During the Marshall discussion, Farage himself noted that approximately a quarter of young Muslim men believe that jihad is acceptable, undermining his own argument with regard to the tolerance of the people in question. He concluded with this rather dire prognostication: “We have a Muslim population growing by 75% every decade. If we alienate the whole of Islam, we will lose – by 2050 goodness knows what kind of terrible state we will be in.” It is difficult to interpret this as anything but a warning, and, worse, capitulation. Perhaps it was for such reasons that Elon Musk so publicly withdrew the support he had very recently been offering to the leader of the Reform Party, although there have been more recently signs of a stiffening of Farage’s position and a corresponding rapprochement on the part of the world’s foremost industrialist. </p>
  401. <p>We might also observe, with equally pessimism, that the objections from the international community to the mass rape scandal in the UK is not coming in the main, from moderate Muslims from within the UK itself, or from hypothetically moderate Muslim countries, but from other Western democracies. Surely it is incumbent on those within the Islam world who claim no causal association between the tenets of the Mohameddan faith and the wretched (to put it mildly) treatment of women at the hands of the brutes to forthrightly indicate that such behavior is not only utterly unacceptable but absolutely at odds with the faith that the perpetrators of such crimes all too often claim. Where are the public demonstrations in the societies of the Muslim world against the deceivers and liars who claim religious affiliation in the name of Allah, while daring to behave in such an atrocious manner? </p>
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  403. <p>So what might be the way forward – if any – in light of all these intractable differences, the unspeakable depravity of the crimes in question, the utter cowardice and prevarication of the liberal elite, and the betrayal of the working-class? Does such a way exist, even in principle; even if optimism is allowed to be our guiding principle? It is not at all obvious that the answer is ‘yes.’ But there are glimmerings of genuine hope, not least within the Islamic world itself.  </p>
  404. <p>During his interview with Farage, Winston Marshall highlighted a series of positive developments on the international scene. The Muslim countries heading the Abraham Accords – the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco – may well be heading a true move to a peaceful and cooperative future, not only in the Middle East, but to equally vital control of the worst excesses of the hypothetically fundamentalist Islamist hypocrites.  Had the shortsighted and politically expedient Biden administration been willing to grant Donald Trump the least bit of credit for this remarkable development, and continued the process, Saudi Arabia would have also been a signatory. That could still happen, given the administrative change in the US. </p>
  405. <p>The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud, has stated his opposition to the Islamist extremists in a very blunt manner. He stated quite recently, in Riyadh, that he would “destroy them today,” that he wants to “co-exist with the world,” and that his state would “present the moderate teachings and principles of Islam,” with the “right being on his side.” The UAE’s Sheik Abdullah bin Zayed has been even more provocative and forthright, stating that “there will come a day that we will see far more radical extremists and terrorists coming out of Europe because of lack of decision-making, trying to be politically correct, or assuming that they know the Middle East and Islam far better than we do – an attitude of pure ignorance.” </p>
  406. <p>This means that there are leaders within the Islamic community itself, not without influence, seeking to diversify and modernise their respective states, who are already more willing than their Western counterparts both to admit to the existence of the psychopathic manipulators cloaking themselves in the guise of pure religious Islamic fundamentalism, and to exercise severe control over their machinations. Equally moderate attitudes could be fostered among the Muslim immigrants to the West. </p>
  407. <p>That would mean, however, that Western leaders would have to bite the bullet (as their moderate Islamic counterparts already have) and help separate the wheat from the chaff within the Muslim immigrant communities themselves. This will be of great and true benefit not only to the moderates within those enclaves, but to those Westerners called upon to share cultural, economic and social space with them (that would be the working class), as well as to the moderate Islamic world internationally, whose leaders are endeavouring to do the same thing. </p>
  408. <p>This would mean justly and courageously identifying, pursuing and incarcerating or deporting the bad actors. This would mean applying the law of the land to the presumably oppressed and victimized newcomers, precisely as it is applied to citizens of longer standing. This would mean firmly and unapologetically noting where Western traditions, legal and otherwise, clash with the axioms of authoritarian intolerance. This would mean withstanding the accusations of “Islamophobia,”, “far-Right affiliation” and the associated risk of reputation destruction, demolition of career and general cancelation that the Leftist revolutionaries and the cowards and appeasers of the Right are so happily willing to inflict.</p>
  409. <p>This would also mean, finally, publicly admitting to the mass rape of hundreds of thousands of British girls, the investigation of the causes of such atrocious behavior, and the meting out of severe and certain punishment not only to the perpetrators, who are truly beyond the pale and must be treated as such, but to the enablers and allies who turned a blind eye for their ease and their reputation when called upon to open their eyes, speak their piece truthfully, and defend their less fortunate compatriots.</p>
  410. <p>This is a terrible pathway forward, made palatable, perhaps, only by the even more intolerable fact of the alternative: capitulation to the worst of men, cloaking themselves in the guise of the divine, swearing enmity to the West and to free women, posing true danger to the poor and marginalised, and threatening not only the free societies of the world but those who are striving toward freedom within the many countries who remain unsustainably repressive and authoritarian. </p>
  411. <p>When conscience calls upon us to speak, silence is a sin. God swore to Abraham that he would spare the evil cities of Sodom and Gomorrah if only ten good men could be found. If the eternally threatened metropolis is to survive, therefore, each of us is called upon to be one of those ten. It has been said that the truth will set us free, although there is no accompanying promise that such freedom will come without cost. But the hell that the lie engenders – and this includes the lies of the complicit and silent – is more intolerable and lasting than whatever trials emerge in consequence of honest discussion, negotation and confrontation. </p>
  412. <p>We cannot make peace by pretending that it is here, already, when it is clearly not – particularly not when evil is obviously afoot. If we are going to continue the multicultural experiment – which is in part an experiment in how to make peace in the broader, international world – we will have to accept responsibility for dealing with the evil of diversity, as well as the good. This means standing up for what is right, even when the perpetrators of malevolence and crime are members of communities deemed oppressed, for whatever reasons, by the purposefully naïve holier-than-thou enemies of the free, productive and well-worth preserving West. </p>
  413. <p>We need to drop our naïve belief in the untrammeled goodness of diversity and multiculturalism. We need to respond maturely and with discernment to the true complexities of religious, racial and ethnic difference, which offer promise and danger in at least equal measure. We need to admit to the scale of the mass sadistic rape catastrophe, and thoroughly examine its causes.We need to document the reality of the complicit behavior of those deemed protectors of the innocent, and to account for their appalling failure. We need – as alluded to previously – a frank and unflinching discussion nationally as well as internationally about how to identify the criminals shrouding themselves in the guise of Islam, separate them from those who want harmony and peace, and stop them dead in their tracks. </p>
  414. <p>We need, finally and above all, to stop raising our moral stature falsely by lying and prevaricating, while sacrificing others to our pretension. </p>
  415. <p>The alternative is grim indeed – and not only for the traditional inhabitants of the UK specifically and the West more generally, but for all those within the Muslim world who could and would move toward the enlightened freedom of attitude and action that makes the West the destination of choice for the truly downtrodden and dispossessed of the world.</p>
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  435. <p><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 0px;">Trucks drive over the Ambassador Bridge to and from the United States in Windsor, Ontario, Tuesday January 21, 2025.</span> <span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 0px;">Photo by Peter J. Thompson</span> /<span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 0px;">National Post</span></p>
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  437. <p>There is little doubt that one Donald J. Trump has truly and effectively rattled his northern neighbour’s chains. Aren’t the Americans our friends — and vice versa? Is the president serious in his desire to make Canada the 51st state? He certainly seemed serious enough when discussing his proposed takeover of Greenland with the Danish prime minister last week. Such intensity and unpredictability of purpose has sent the leaders of that country, reminiscent of the Canadian Liberals in their political orientation, into a tizzy — one that has extended to their socialist and globalist European compatriots. Who is this horrible orange-haired man, they wonder, and what does he want?</p>
  438. <p>We’re all about to find out — and, not least, in Canada. Why is all this happening, we ask, wringing our hands; and to us, the self-proclaimed greatest best friend and staunch ally of the elephant who parades so theatrically on the far side of our southern border?</p>
  439. <p>We might begin to answer that suddenly so relevant question by scrupulously questioning the nature of that friendship — and on our side. Perhaps we’re not the partners and collaborators we think we are, for starters. It could well be argued, for example, that our much-vaunted Canuck niceness (that second-rate virtue) in relation to the superpower who overshadows us in every manner is and has been a matter of blunt necessity, rather than a consequence of our genuine reliability as well-wisher and supporter. It is true that Canada has made sacrifices alongside the Americans, when freedom and democracy was truly threatened. That was real — but it was a long time ago. Since then, we have played and continue to play a crooked game with regard to our hypothetical U.S. allies in many other important and consequential regards. A telling personal example might serve to introduce this re-evaluation.</p>
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  445. <p>I lived in the U.S. from 1992-1998, during the last time that remarkable country truly boomed. When I returned from America’s finest university to Canada’s, I brought with me three brilliant students, two of whom — a married couple — were both thoroughly sensible and somewhat on the conservative side. It proved somewhat unexpectedly difficult to take my junior colleagues anywhere in Toronto, particularly at the university, without continual embarrassment on my part for merely being a Canadian, as a “casual” anti-Americanism would inevitably be directed toward them, whenever the inevitable topic of their place of origin arose.</p>
  446. <p>My fellow countrymen continually said things that would have been regarded as clearly racist, sexist or ethnocentric had they been uttered to anyone other than an American citizen — assuming, rightly (given the civilized nature of the people in question) that they would take them politely, and without evident offence. Such comments were much more likely to emanate, as well, from precisely the sort of leftists prone to proclaim first that such behaviour is utterly unacceptable and second that such conduct would of course never show its face among people as good in their thoughts as them.</p>
  447. <p>Such behaviour is, sadly, a Canadian norm, particularly wherever the country is left-leaning; particularly wherever everyone believes axiomatically that we have all the virtues of our democratic compatriots to the south, and then some; particularly wherever everyone is inclined to point self-righteously to the wonders of our now-dreadful and even oft-murderous “free” health-care system and its associated highly dysfunctional, expensive and increasingly unsustainable social safety net and compare it to the free-for-all in the U.S. they inevitably resort to if death threatens and they have the money.</p>
  448. <p>That combined attitude of essentially socialist sentiment and moral superiority was exemplified above all, perhaps, by former Prime Minister Trudeau — and I’m speaking now not of the fils who resigned in disgrace after sacrificing our economy to the gods of his self-serving utopian globalist delusion. I’m referring, instead, to the père who dallied so self-aggrandizingly with the Chinese Reds and the dictatorial communist Fidel Castro and rubbed the Americans’ noses in it, moralizing intellectually and oh-so-fashionably all the while.</p>
  449. <p>We Canadians also pride ourselves on our peaceful — and peacekeeping — nature (take that, Yanks), contrasting that with the war-mongering attitude of the gunslingers we secretly admire but publicly disdain, forgetting ever-so-conveniently that it is nothing but our positioning under the fearsome nuclear umbrella of the U.S.A. and our knowledge of the certainty of their military protection if push comes to shove that allows us to be the sheep of peace who bleat their undeserved self-regard with so little shame.</p>
  450. <p>Let’s add to that our absolute and disgraceful refusal to pull our fair share of the weight with regards to our own woke, broke and demoralized military. Trump recently informed his NATO allies that the U.S. would like to see them spend five per cent of their GDP on defence. He’d be happy, in truth, with three, and would settle (and has said so) for two. Canada (mis)spends 1.3 per cent, a figure so low that we have reduced our own soldiers, of whom there are frighteningly few, to a state where they find it necessary to purchase even their own helmets. We camouflage this failure by trumpeting our commitment to peace, as we love to do when our politicians take the international stage, or when we slap a Canadian flag on our backpacks while hostelling through Europe and Asia, to differentiate ourselves from the Evil Imperialists to the south.</p>
  451. <p>This is hardly the way to signal to the U.S. either that we are capable of defending ourselves, thank you very much, or that we are grateful for their existence as big brother captain of the high school wrestling team — much-disdained protector of our junior hippy student radical selves. Such things matter, more than we think — and a lot more, now that middle America is in charge, given the well-deserved contempt that lot have for the niceties of hypocritical socialist smartest-kid-in-the-class peaceniks. Remember, Canucks: the U.S. is now run by exactly the kind of Americans that we tempt themselves so unforgivably to treat as our moral inferiors. This is not how friends behave. It is also no way to keep friends, once they have hypothetically been made. And we’ve been put on serious notice in that regard.</p>
  452. <p>And we are only scratching the surface in our analysis of the problems with Canada-U.S. relations, and with Canada itself, with that nothing-but-preliminary analysis. For the last nine years, Canada has been run by exactly the type of contemptible elitists who are, if anything, even more anti-capitalist, anti-nationalist, and anti-industrial state than the typical Canadian. This has set us against our putative American allies, in a manner much deeper than we want to think — and don’t be thinking that any of this is lost on Trump. He clearly despises the recently departed Justin, and has as much respect for those who elected him as he does for the Democrats, so much like them, who tortured, tormented and despised him and the flyover country MAGA middlebrows who were so much wiser in their political instincts than their Ivy League wannabe masters.</p>
  453. <p>Canadians are Democrats, in Trump’s view, except more so. We think that’s a virtue. It’s not. It’s a liability, in all general manners. More specifically, it is a liability in relation to the U.S., particularly now. It has also and more seriously (as if irritating our mighty neighbours is not enough) threatened both Canada’s economic viability and the likelihood it will survive as a nation. We might also note, in that regard, that the newly ordained and inevitable grand poobah of the currently wretched but still dangerously powerful Liberals, one Mark Carney, is one of the world’s prime advocates of the insane inanities of net zero.</p>
  454. <p>He is a man who has planned in writing, not least in his bestselling book Values, the complete destruction of the fossil fuel industry (bye, bye, Alberta). If that’s not bad enough, and it is, he is also simultaneously an advocate of the same “post-national” view of Canada defined by Trudeau junior and his moralistic minions. What are we, according to such good thinkers? Nothing: but if anything, the oppressive patriarchal white supremacist identity-less colonial settler state defined by the progressive ideologues in the think-tanks, the elite dining rooms in eastern Canada, and the protest encampments on the campuses of Canadian universities.</p>
  455. <p>None of this fills the MAGA crowd with admiration, in case it has to be said. None of it bodes well, either, for the economy of Canada— doomed to replacement, according to Carney, by hydrogen, solar and wind power that either does not exist (that would be the hydrogen) or that would doom Canadians to starve and freeze in the dark if it ever came to replace the reliable grid and transportation we all so desperately depend on when it’s 40 bloody below. We may when arguing so expensively and incompetently with the Americans continue to congratulate ourselves on our comparative righteousness. That diet will become even thinner gruel, however, in a future characterized by their explosive economic growth and our rapid descent toward comparative poverty and irrelevance (green though that pathway may be argued, however falsely, to be).</p>
  456. <p>Carney, to put it bluntly, is not a man like Justin Trudeau — a second-rater, under the mere influence of the World Economic Forum, that Malthusian fear-mongering cabal of authoritarian elitists, drunk on the fumes of their own self-righteous delusions. He is by contrast a veritable leader of that movement, an organizer par excellence of ESG, stakeholder capitalism, diversity, equity and inclusiveness, and degrowth. Out with the old, the Liberals claim, and in with the new, but the new will be everything Trudeau so terribly was, but a lot more efficiently, and with much more sophisticated rationalization. None of this is lost on the MAGA mob, insofar as they deign to notice — and they notice enough, it might be reiterated, to shake our foundation.</p>
  457. <p>Consider, therefore, with regard to this, something more pointed and illustrative. That would be the current plight of Alberta (and, with it, Saskatchewan and even B.C., although the latter is still too blind and holier-than-thou socialist to note the true danger that confronts it). The most American of all Canadian provinces — by widespread reputation, and self-regard — Alberta is also the polity that eastern Canada, particularly Quebec, relies on to survive, while it pursues its disdainful socialist green agenda. This is the Quebec that has whined and manipulated so effectively for so many decades that its bilingual citizenry utterly dominates not only the perennially ruling Liberal party, but the federal bureaucracy. That constitutes only two such unjust and unproductive advantages among many, by the way — and all that despite the despite the Francophonie’s strong and lasting separatist leanings.</p>
  458. <p>This is the same eastern Canada and Quebec that regards itself as entitled not only to the so-called “transfer payments,” characterizing the Canadian social contract, much to the disadvantage of the resource-rich West, but that simultaneously assumes and trumpets a moral superiority to the people who earn that transferred money in a manner deeply reminiscent of that more generally assumed by Canadians with respect to Americans.</p>
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  460. <p>The consequence? No “business case” for the trade deals or infrastructure projects necessary to supply a self-admittedly desperate Europe and Japan with cheap and reliable Alberta energy. No new, plentiful and gratefully received pipelines running west to east in Canada. Abject economic dependence, in consequence, for Albertans (and Canada itself, as we are now finding out) on the purchasing decisions of the mad MAGA Yanks to the south. And now that same Alberta is being called upon to sacrifice its artificially and “morally” limited economy to fight off the looming tariffs of Donald J. Trump, the imposition of which should come as no surprise to anyone the least bit awake. We walked right into this, folks — and boy, we deserved it — but we felt good about ourselves all the way. And what is likely to result?</p>
  461. <p>Trump has offered Canada status as the 51st. If we had a well-constituted country, this would have never happened, or the suggestions would have been laughable. I see damn few people laughing, however, and more’s the pity. A strong case can be made that such subordinate status would not at all be a good deal for the Great White North as a whole. For Alberta, however — and perhaps for the West as such — the situation is not so clear. Here’s what I might do, given that, if I were in Premier Danielle Smith’s shoes — or at least what I might threaten to do, taking a page from Trump’s art-of-the-deal book, because it’s high time for the Albertans to play hardball. I might travel, say, to Mar-a-Lago (where I did in fact recently encounter that premier). I might have, while there, a forthright, even blunt, chat with Donald J., where I might say to him something like the following:</p>
  462. <p>“Mr. President: My fellow Canadians have for decades compelled us to climb into bed with an eight-hundred pound gorilla. That would be you, Mr. Trump. Now you’ve decided to consummate the deal, so to speak — and we’ve given you the upper hand, on a silver platter (to mix metaphors terribly), while you’re doing so. Canada is unlikely to become the 51st state, however — not even Alberta — as you well know, sir. After all, you’d have to offer us something better than what has been put forward by our fellow Canadians.</p>
  463. <p>“That would be: the continued privilege and expense of subsidizing Quebec, half of whose citizens constantly clamour to secede from the country, while we impoverish ourselves for their benefit; the constant imposition of serious practical impediments from the federal and other provincial governments (hint, hint, British Columbia) to the international business deals and pipelines that would help Alberta bring its resources to market; continual insult on top of such injury in the form of unbearable and naïve moralizing about their superiority in conviction with regard to the “sustainability” of the planet — and, to top it all off, the accusation that I am not patriotic enough to start a trade war with my strange bedfellow in the name of a country whose very leaders proclaim both identitylessness and a multiculturalism that none of my citizens want.”</p>
  464. <p>And Trump might well say (or perhaps is even right now saying): “I think I could top that offer, Ms. Premier, fine as it is. I could offer Albertans the American dollar; full access to our markets for their resources, at full international price; lower costs on almost all manufactured goods and on food; lower taxes, both corporate and personal; membership in a country that prides itself on being a country, and that does not plan to dissolve itself into an unstable multicultural mishmash; genuine admiration for your economic and industrial endeavours, along with a can-do, visionary and deeply entrepreneurial culture; immediate, reliable and guaranteed access to ports and pipelines, and full military defence.</p>
  465. <p>“And, if that’s not enough, dear lady — no transfer payments! And the additional psychological advantage for Albertans in foregoing the perpetual and bullying eastern Canadian attitude of grievance and moral superiority, emanating in particular from the Quebec (‘give us what we want forever or we’ll leave!’) who also shamelessly disdains your dirty fossil fuel — such that they made the fracking Alberta’s economy depends upon literally illegal in their jurisdiction, just to make a point, while simultaneously accepting, and not with good grace, the filthy money so generated.”</p>
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  467. <p>What do you think would happen, Oh Canada, if those were the two choices put forth on a ballot before the citizens of Alberta? And why should Smith not take full advantage of this opportunity, to tell her fellow Canadians, in no uncertain terms, a few things that would both make Canada an attractive place for Alberta (and the rest of the West, perhaps) to stay, and much saner and richer, to boot? And what would that be?</p>
  468. <p>“Enough pathetic celebrity-wannabe pandering to the international elites of Davos — and, for good measure, the utterly degenerate UN. Enough overt and covert attempt to destroy the basis of the economy of my fair and hard-working province. Enough delaying critical infrastructure development and rejection of international trade offers for natural gas, oil and coal. Enough treatment of the resource economy upon which Quebec in particular so unacceptably depends as a moral pariah. Enough idiot green moralizing. Enough carbon tax. Enough bloody net zero. And how about this? Enough multiculturalism and destruction of the Canadian identity.</p>
  469. <p>“Why belong, so expensively, to a country that despises its own history, economy and people? Make us a better offer, and quickly, my Canadian friends— or Trump’s tariffs will be the least of your problems.”</p>
  470. <p>And all of this would be not only be good for Alberta — and, by extension, for the working people of Canada — it is also absolutely necessary for Canada, even, perhaps to survive, both economically and politically. There’s a reason</p>
  471. <p>we, like the Europeans, now make a measly sixty cents for every dollar made by our American “friends.” That reason has much to do with the attitudes we have adopted ever since the benighted 1960s that have made us not such good friends at all.</p>
  472. <p>Trump is threatening the integrity of Canada, and very effectively. The fact of that threat, and of its effectiveness, might make us think twice. In such thinking, there could be the opportunity to shed the idiocy that is making us poor, weak, irrelevant on the international stage, and contemptible to our neighbours. We could make his sabre-rattling into an opportunity, increase our cross-border trade, get out of our own way on the energy front, rekindle our national pride at least to the point where we regard our country as both viable and valuable, seek the international markets that would make us more truly independent as a nation, strengthen our commitment to the military that would be increasingly and truly necessary if such independence was pursued, and make of the next hundred years Canada’s triumph instead of the story of its contemptible, self-aggrandizing, moralistic, falsely green and socialist demise.</p>
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  481. <title>The West is sleepwalking into Trudeau’s woke nightmare</title>
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  491. <description><![CDATA[Justin Trudeau is creating a new arm of the state with sweeping powers aimed at criminalising opinions deemed ‘unacceptable’ by progressives For seven days The Telegraph is running a series of exclusive essays from international commentators examining the impact of...]]></description>
  492. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4>Justin Trudeau is creating a new arm of the state with sweeping powers aimed at criminalising opinions deemed ‘unacceptable’ by progressives</h4>
  493. <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-46604" src="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TELEMMGLPICT000399205188_17297965267640_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq-IWLY18X4-CzgyIcjLEAj0k9u7HhRJvuo-ZLenGRumA.webp" alt="" width="1280" height="800" srcset="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TELEMMGLPICT000399205188_17297965267640_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq-IWLY18X4-CzgyIcjLEAj0k9u7HhRJvuo-ZLenGRumA.webp 1280w, https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TELEMMGLPICT000399205188_17297965267640_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq-IWLY18X4-CzgyIcjLEAj0k9u7HhRJvuo-ZLenGRumA-300x188.webp 300w, https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TELEMMGLPICT000399205188_17297965267640_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq-IWLY18X4-CzgyIcjLEAj0k9u7HhRJvuo-ZLenGRumA-1024x640.webp 1024w, https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TELEMMGLPICT000399205188_17297965267640_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq-IWLY18X4-CzgyIcjLEAj0k9u7HhRJvuo-ZLenGRumA-768x480.webp 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px" /></p>
  494. <p><em>For seven days The Telegraph is running a series of exclusive essays from international commentators examining the impact of Canada’s progressive legislation on issues such as assisted dying, free speech, and drugs. </em></p>
  495. <p><em>In our first essay, world-renowned Canadian psychologist and author Jordan B. Peterson examines new bills for policing ‘online harm’.</em></p>
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  497. <p>The bloom has certainly gone off the rose with regard to <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/justin-trudeau/">Canada’s Justin Trudeau</a> – and most deservedly so.</p>
  498. <p>He was the great hope of modern progressivism, handsome and charming – but his actions and inactions have confirmed the very worst suspicions of those dubious about the moral claims of elites obsessed with green dogma, their excessive demands, and their false compassion.</p>
  499. <p>To put it bluntly: Canada is not thriving. On the economic side, we in the Great White North are now less productive, per capita, than the inhabitants of Mississippi, the least productive American state. Our border is, if anything, more carelessly open than that of our US allies, and our real estate prices are, despite our great expanse of habitable land, much higher.</p>
  500. <p>The country also has a meanness about it that was entirely absent in living memory, a developing distrust of institutions (universities, courts, professional organisations, K-12 education, legacy media) that is utterly different than anything Canada has seen since the Second World War – indeed, since the country was established.</p>
  501. <p>Everything Trudeau promised turned out to be false. There were no truly “sunny ways,” as the charming but exceedingly narcissistic and handsome boy-for-show originally claimed. He sat the women he hypothetically cared for in equal numbers with men in his new cabinet, famously, in 2015, despite the fact that only one-quarter of the relevant elected candidate pool was female. It took very little time, however, for at least half a dozen of them, <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04/03/trudeau-expels-former-cabinet-ministers-liberal-party-amid-corruption/">including his Justice Secretary</a>, the only indigenous woman at the time elected to the House of Commons, to no longer be in post. During their last meeting she’s reported as telling Trudeau: “I wish that I had never met you.”</p>
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  504. <p>His energy policy – really, an anti-energy policy – has been disastrous, interfering as it has with the development of the great fossil fuel resource pool that is the blessing of Western Canada. Such a resource is necessary for the world, as the alternative is reliance on dictatorial and unstable countries not particularly noted for their green concerns. Trudeau lacks interest in policy matters, having famously and self-righteously stated as much regarding trivialities such as financial concerns. It is not too much to say that the former part-time drama teacher is very good at playing Prime Minister, but quite dreadful at actually doing the work.</p>
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  507. <p><strong>Below the surface</strong></p>
  508. <p>That is a rather dismal purview of a rather dispiriting reality. However, the situation in Canada (and, by implication, the progressive world of which my country was, hypothetically, a shining example) is far worse than even all that indicates.</p>
  509. <p>What evidence do I have for that? The sheer unadulterated farcical horror of much of the legislation that is currently in process during the waning days of the Trudeau years. Analysis of one Bill, C63, makes that starkly and surreally clear. I use those rather dramatic adjectives advisedly. Such legislation has become the norm, rather than the exception, in Western societies with a modern “progressive” bent around the globe.</p>
  510. <p>On its surface – like the aforementioned Trudeau – the Bill appears not only harmless, but positively beneficial. It purports to do nothing less than protect children (“think of the children!”) from the predations of online psychopaths and purveyors and collectors of pornography. Who could possibly object to such an aim? But the apparent positive impulse is camouflage for something far darker – so dark that it took me multiple readings to assure myself that I was indeed properly understanding what was in front of me.</p>
  511. <p>A codicil: I am not a lawyer, but I am at least reasonably literate. I was certainly correct in my very public understanding of a previous piece of benevolent Trudeau legislation, one Bill C16.</p>
  512. <p>That legislation claimed to do nothing less laudable than to bring even more of the poor oppressed intersectional masses of the world under the shelter of legal protection, extending the Canadian Charter of Rights to so-called “<a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/01/canada-votes-make-national-anthem-gender-neutral/">gender identity</a>,” which is something that does not exist, and “gender expression,” which is as far as I can tell nothing other than fashion choice, while simultaneously compelling the use of certain forms of private speech (something no other bill in a Western country had ever done), as well as further confusing and then seriously harming children already confused by the idiot ideologies of the fringe.</p>
  513. <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-46605" style="margin-bottom: -10px;" src="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TELEMMGLPICT000382154209_17298463647150_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqU3eMaYy0rqVTG7YvUgwhJnuqFFkW70PKKitnWUGuSbY.png" alt="" width="640" height="400" srcset="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TELEMMGLPICT000382154209_17298463647150_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqU3eMaYy0rqVTG7YvUgwhJnuqFFkW70PKKitnWUGuSbY.png 640w, https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TELEMMGLPICT000382154209_17298463647150_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqU3eMaYy0rqVTG7YvUgwhJnuqFFkW70PKKitnWUGuSbY-300x188.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><br />
  514. <span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 0px;">A Pride march in Canada</span></p>
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  519. <p>I warned the Canadian Senate at the time of Bill C16’s passing, which I publicly objected to (at the cost of the demolition of my professorial and professional life), informing the rude and dismissive good-thinkers in that august institution that their virtue-signalling law would not only threaten free speech – as it has – but produce a positive epidemic of psychopathology among, in particular, young women.</p>
  520. <p>This prognostication has come true with a vengeance, as the vulnerable young women it confused have been lining up in droves of thousands – many of them minors – for the utterly brutal double mastectomies that have now <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/15/doctors-using-tik-tok-promote-trans-top-surgery-young-people/">become far more common</a> as a form of “gender expression”. I believe that professional participation in all of this – particularly the surgeries, which in the case of the boys affected means castration – is tantamount to the crimes against humanity that (particularly) everyone on the left absolutely forswore, in principle, following the fascist atrocities of the National Socialist State.</p>
  521. <p><strong>The devil in the details</strong></p>
  522. <p>But back to C63. To control “online harm,” the Trudeau administration would establish a new ‘Digital Safety Commission’. This will produce an entire bureaucracy (in essence, a parallel judicial system), which – given the extreme threat that such online harm hypothetically produces – has frighteningly unlimited powers.</p>
  523. <p>The bill, though, opens un-threateningly, with a list of all the terrible things that might happen to people exposed to online malfeasance, including the aforementioned sexual and other harm to children. But, as is typically the case with legislation, the devil is in the details, and the devil hiding in this bill is one whose presence should not go unnoticed.</p>
  524. <p>Some of the intent is the control of pornography, particularly that involving children but the rest is oddly but very purposefully and <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/13/canada-is-descending-into-tyranny-under-trudeau/">cunningly devoted to the “hate crime</a>” that is now used so much as an excuse for nothing but restriction of freedom.</p>
  525. <p>Hate, by the way, has not been an issue, historically, in Canada, compared to the rest of the world, before Mr. Trudeau and his compatriots did what they could to foment, enable and encourage it. But what constitutes said hate to so-called progressives? It is here we can strike to the heart of the matter. The Canadian Charter of Rights and its extended provisions protect a variety of groups and pseudo-groups. Let’s use the actual wording provided by the Trudeau government, describing their legislative intent. The Bill would:</p>
  526. <blockquote><p><em>“&#8230;create a new hate crime offence of committing an offence under the Criminal Code or any other Act of Parliament that is motivated by hatred based on certain factors…race, national or ethnic origin, language, colour, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression. [The perpetrator] is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for life.”</em></p></blockquote>
  527. <p>Note particularly the last sentence, which we will return to.</p>
  528. <p>Now for the even more devilish details. Members of the ‘Digital Safety Commission’ – three to five full-time members appointed by the Governor in Council – can delegate any of their powers to any of their employees, with some minor restrictions. This is worrisome, to say the least, because they can also employ any number of people. And they will, of course, given that their job is essentially to monitor and police the internet, which is both a big and impossible job.</p>
  529. <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-46606" style="margin-bottom: -10px; font-size: 12px;" src="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TELEMMGLPICT000137743017_17298465171240_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqA7N2CxnJWnYI3tCbVBgu9T0aesusvN1TE7a0ddd_esI.png" alt="" width="960" height="600" srcset="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TELEMMGLPICT000137743017_17298465171240_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqA7N2CxnJWnYI3tCbVBgu9T0aesusvN1TE7a0ddd_esI.png 960w, https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TELEMMGLPICT000137743017_17298465171240_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqA7N2CxnJWnYI3tCbVBgu9T0aesusvN1TE7a0ddd_esI-300x188.png 300w, https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TELEMMGLPICT000137743017_17298465171240_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqA7N2CxnJWnYI3tCbVBgu9T0aesusvN1TE7a0ddd_esI-768x480.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px" /><br />
  530. <span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 0px;">The Canadian flag as it flies in front of the peace tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa</span></p>
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  535. <p>The bill then burdens those who operate online services with the requirement to report to the government the details of their compliance with the act, in precisely the onerous manner that will make it impossible for Canadians who aren’t giant idiot corporations to manage. Thus, one “minor” consequence of C63 will be that the small operators who give much value to the web and what it offers will find it very difficult – indeed dangerous – to continue. This alone should give its formulators pause, although such eradication is in the best interests of much of the woke mob.</p>
  536. <p>Anyone in Canada can seemingly snitch to this Commission, about any online content whatsoever – indeed, it encourages them to – and many will be more than happy to oblige.</p>
  537. <p>The Commission also has the power of a superior court of record, and can act in that manner. However, the members of the Commission are not defined with regard to the necessity of any professional competence (such as legal training). Worse: it says explicitly in the bill that their actions are not “bound by any legal or technical rules of evidence” (!).</p>
  538. <p>Canadians so affected by the bill – or suspected of being persons of interest – are compelled by specific provisions to comply in any manner the Commission deems appropriate, which also means turning over all of their material and electronic assets for examination and potential seizure.</p>
  539. <p>Finally, apart from being free from any bounds of professional knowledge or evidentiary or procedural standards, the scope of action of the Commission is essentially unbounded:</p>
  540. <blockquote><p><em>“If the Commission has reasonable grounds to believe that an operator is contravening or has contravened this Act, it may make an order requiring the operator to take, or refrain from taking, any measure to ensure compliance with this Act.”</em></p></blockquote>
  541. <p>If you don’t think this power will be immediately weaponised by malevolent political and ideological actors, you’re a fool, because that is apparently the real purpose of the bill, camouflaged under the guise of protecting children from sexual predators. After all, these are the punishments, severe to the point of incomprehensibility: including 6% of the global revenue (not profit) of the person in question, per crime – and each day the offending material exists can be deemed a separate crime. That is an adjunct to the aforementioned lifetime imprisonment, which is also described as potentially appropriate.</p>
  542. <p><strong>Using ‘Hate speech’ as a tool of suppression</strong></p>
  543. <p>After this, things get worse, difficult as that might be to believe. Hidden deeper still inside this bill’s wordy and deceptive moralising and purposeful obfuscation is its true purpose, in my opinion: the monitoring and punishment of ‘hate speech’. There is more serpentine camouflage at work here, too: how could anyone be against crimes of hate?</p>
  544. <p>There is no truly relevant response to this question, other than this: who defines ‘hate’? The answer to that is twofold: first, the very snitches and informers that this bill enables and rewards, and the very last people you want to provide with that power if you have an iota of sense; second, those who hate speech, and who wish to regulate or, indeed, forbid it, so that the only things that can be said or, eventually, thought are favourable or agreeable to them.</p>
  545. <p>Perhaps you think that this answer constitutes an overstatement. Consider this, then: there are few countries in the world where free speech prevails. It is the exception rather than the norm. This is because threats to it are many and defenses few and difficult to mount.</p>
  546. <p>One of those threats are the truly frightening powers provided to provincial judges.</p>
  547. <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-46607" style="margin-bottom: -10px; font-size: 12px;" src="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TELEMMGLPICT000200995314_17298472065300_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqqVzuuqpFlyLIwiB6NTmJwQEeZeIsFVFy5-rU9XT4lgg.png" alt="" width="565" height="352" srcset="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TELEMMGLPICT000200995314_17298472065300_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqqVzuuqpFlyLIwiB6NTmJwQEeZeIsFVFy5-rU9XT4lgg.png 565w, https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TELEMMGLPICT000200995314_17298472065300_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqqVzuuqpFlyLIwiB6NTmJwQEeZeIsFVFy5-rU9XT4lgg-300x187.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px" /><br />
  548. <span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 0px;">George Orwell’s book ‘1984’</span></p>
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  553. <p>Anyone in Canada can, in accordance with this legislation, accuse anyone they choose of making said accuser “fearful.” Fearful of what, you may ask? That the person so specified may, in the future, commit a hate crime, as broadly defined. This is not only a future crime that has not yet occurred, but a future crime defined only by someone’s “fear” that such an event might occur. So this is far more than the mere ‘thought crime’ defined by <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/22/george-orwells-chilling-prediction-has-come-true-roald-dahl/">George Orwell</a> – the characteristic of the worst conceivable totalitarian state. It is the merely subjective judgment (not judgment; feeling) of any old accuser that such a crime might conceivably occur.</p>
  554. <p>If the magistrate in question is convinced (and remember just how ideologically captured the judiciary is becoming, particularly but not uniquely in Canada) then the person so accused can be restricted to their house, with an electronic monitoring bracelet affixed to their leg, denied access to their friends and family, either in person or online, and be required (!) to provide samples of their bodily fluids whenever requested for a period of no less than one year.</p>
  555. <p>There is yet much else in this most totalitarian of bills, but that will suffice for now, to make the broader point.</p>
  556. <p>Bill C63, already through first reading, sets up an entirely new and indefinitely expandable extrajudicial bureaucracy, with all the power of a court available to anyone who is appointed, or their subordinate employees. It does that under the guise of protecting children from sexual exploitation, although there are many other ways of doing this. Despite it being a court, it is not bound by traditional precedents or evidentiary standards. Furthermore, Canadians are required upon serious penalty to comply with its directives, <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/01/jordan-peterson-podcast-canada-decline-twitter-free-speech/">or face the consequences</a>. It has extremely wide latitude in its choice of punishments, including even lifetime imprisonment, and encourages the development of a veritable class of informants, who can cause those they target extreme trouble merely on the basis of their subjectively-defined “fears”.</p>
  557. <p>These are deemed merely by the fact of their existence to be of sufficient gravitas to enable a provincial magistrate, so inclined, to subject someone explicitly free of any crime other than the hypothetical and future to a severe restriction of personal freedom, constant surveillance, and forced participation in highly personal medical monitoring.</p>
  558. <p>What could possibly go wrong?</p>
  559. <p><strong>Trudeau’s toxic legacy</strong></p>
  560. <p>And that, my friends, is Trudeau’s Canada in a nutshell: all progressive nicety on the outside; all delightful grace and designer socks and care for women and the oppressed, whilst on the inside a totalitarian proclivity so strong that merely to investigate it is to skirt paranoia. Sheep’s clothing and ravening wolves indeed. Our Prince Charming Justin (much more truly the Gaston of Beauty and the Beast) is indeed everything wrong with the faux-compassionate and equity-obsessed Left, full of false promises, while pregnant with a <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/03/justin-trudeaus-woke-canada-serves-as-a-chilling-warning-of/">desire for extreme totalising power</a>.</p>
  561. <p>Consider this bill as a veritable exemplar of the true Trudeau way. Who could possibly object to ensuring the safety of children, who are indeed threatened by the online world?</p>
  562. <p>Hidden in its bowels, however, is the true meat of the matter: a new arm of the state, with the most sweeping of powers, aimed squarely at criminalising all opinions that are deemed not in accordance with the public good, by any and all moralising informants willing to step forward – all state sponsored and funded.</p>
  563. <p>I was in Toronto during the pandemic. My strong sense? Thirty percent of Canadians would happily wear a mask, however useless, for the rest of their life, if this would provide them with continuous access to the power to spy and report upon their neighbours. It is precisely the members of this not at all scarce minority who will step – no, leap enthusiastically – forward, in the aftermath of C63, assuming the Canadian parliament is demented enough to continue its progression, and turning Canada into a country from which anyone with sense and means will strive to flee.</p>
  564. <p>In truth, that’s happening already. And rightly so.</p>
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  566. <p><em>Jordan B. Peterson is professor emeritus at the University of Toronto and author of “Maps of Meaning,” “12 Rules for Life” and “Beyond Order.”</em></p>
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  587. <description><![CDATA[The woke madness must end Dr. Jordan Peterson speaks to a full house at the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa, Ont. on Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. Photo by Bryan Passifiume /National Post It may amuse all of you who have become somewhat...]]></description>
  588. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4>The woke madness must end</h4>
  589. <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-46485" style="margin-bottom: -20px;" src="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ign6436.webp" alt="Dr. Jordan Peterson speaks to a full house at the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa, Ont. on Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. Photo by Bryan Passifiume /National Post" width="1039" height="779" srcset="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ign6436.webp 564w, https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ign6436-300x225.webp 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1039px) 100vw, 1039px" /></p>
  590. <p><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 0px;">Dr. Jordan Peterson speaks to a full house at the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa, Ont. on Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. Photo by Bryan Passifiume /National Post</span></p>
  591. <p>It may amuse all of you who have become somewhat cynical in recent years to hear what has most lately become of my battle with the tyrants of compassion and masters of incompetence at the Ontario College of Psychologists and (more recently) Behaviour Analysts — a recent unnecessary change and extension of name that appears all-too-convenient to my cynical eye, hiding them as it does from easy online search and the no-doubt horrible pressure of international public opinion regarding their actions in my regard. Remember if you will, or be now informed that I have been scheduled for an indefinite course of professional education by appointees of that institution for expressing my opinions in a country that apparently no longer considers that acceptable for its professionals (depending, of course, on the opinions). I appealed that decision, to the highest court in the land — a legal entreaty that was rejected as of Aug. 27.</p>
  592. <p>A few days after that I sent in a request to the powers that be at the college, requesting, in all due humility, the names of the wizards or witches who stood at the ready to re-educate me: to convince me of my sins, spoken and acted; to rehabilitate me, so that I could now proudly serve as yet another voiceless, craven coward, duly supporting the butchers of the trans child-mutilation and sterilization crowd, the brain-dead admirers (or silent enemies) of the Trudeau administration and its assorted green-idiot utopian globalists, and the self-righteous race-baiting pushers of the Diversity, Inclusion and Equity mantra. I did so because the judgment of the college indicated that after my defeat at the hands of the woke and captured Canadian judiciary I was required to transform my personality comprehensively within a maximum three-month period, and to indicate my abject contrition while doing so.</p>
  593. <p>All this, as the deserving party — at least according to the judgment of college and court mandarins alike — I was willing to do. I complied. I agreed. I accepted my punishment. I awaited my correction, like a good trick pony. All legal avenues had been (expensively) exhausted. And so, boys and girls of the COPABA: On with the show!</p>
  594. <p>I had been previously provided with a document that listed the “social media experts” at the ready to perform their magical incantations on my recalcitrant psyche — despite the fact that there is no such profession as “social media expert,” and that no one who was such a rare beast would stoop to inform me of my misbehaviour, being no doubt much more properly occupied educating the veritable millions of followers they had gathered as the only possible valid expression of their much vaunted expertise.</p>
  595. <p>One problem remained, and a serious one, indeed, practically speaking: the very lines in the document that contained the identifying information of the experts (names, email addresses, professional standing, and telephone numbers) had been redacted, no doubt to protect their fragile and hoping-to-be anonymous selves against the reactions of the legions of reactionary trolls I would unleash in my indefensible efforts to defend myself.</p>
  596. <p>A response was soon forthcoming, in written form: due to some (conveniently undescribed) administrative confusion, the names were presently unavailable. The good people at the college were, however — in their great benevolence and wisdom — willing to extend my three-month purgatorial period, perhaps indefinitely (?), while the necessary information was rounded up and provided. A few weeks hence their lawyers contacted my lawyers and informed the latter and me that a settlement offer might be possible. This, by way of foreshadowing, was not the eminently unreasonable (apparently) offering I had made publicly, in this very newspaper, suggesting that the college modify its policies so that the professionals it purports to regulate could not be tormented and impoverished by the mendacious and noisome complaints of any old ideological idiot anywhere but only by people to whom actual service, however wretched, had actually been provided — and only by if not actual inhabitants of the province in question (in this case, Ontario) at least Canada. No, it was none of that — and this speaks directly to the stunning incompetence and generalized cluelessness of the parties in question, and also to the absolute impoverishment of their worldview.</p>
  597. <p>Note also that since it is now early October, the college only has about seven weeks to straighten out the mess they created around themselves, without violating their own rules, and to repair me one way or another, in the hopefully permanent manner they are devoutly hoping to manage. Or, what is more likely — the rules of engagement apply to me, but not to them. Thus, I have three months to become re-educated, but they have infinite time to organize the process. And there would be little more convenient in this stickiest of situations than kicking the proverbial damned can a little farther down the road.</p>
  598. <p>Their first offer was (get this — and I still can’t believe it): “If Dr. Peterson agrees to resign, we would be willing to forego the legal costs the court ruled he owes us!” That was some two dozen thousands of dollars, a not inconsiderable sum (although a mere pittance in comparison to what their decade-long campaign of harassment and petty torment has cost me — some 25 times that amount in direct legal fees alone, an amount sufficient to bankrupt the typical target of their inquiry, particularly in combination with the devastation of professional income that all-too-often accompanies such inquisition. Thus, their opening gambit was based on the assumptions (1) that I could be bought and (2) that I could be bought cheaply.</p>
  599. <p>The first was truly insulting, as well as preposterous: if cost alone was going to stop me, it would have happened long ago. The second was ironically laughable, and an indication of their ignorance regarding what is at stake here: if I was for sale — and I am not — it would be for a hell of a lot more than the court costs that the Supreme Court deemed me liable for when my appeal was rejected. I am already in over my head for a lot more than that on the expenditure side alone; in addition, I have enough stable sources of income now arrayed around me such that the amount in question is not a relevant determinant of my behaviour, as the college tyrannocrats should have realized, had they done an iota of necessary homework.</p>
  600. <p>I should indicate just for the continuance of the high comedy that I discovered while paying my dues last year that this same college had found it necessary to raise the annual cost for being a professional subject of their tender machinations by almost 50 per cent — a substantial proportion of which was no doubt to pay the costs they had incurred pursuing me. It was very annoying of course to pay them for coming after me, on the personal side. More generally, however, almost nothing stupider could be imagined than the college tempting bankruptcy by pointlessly tormenting me, at the cost of the other members, but here we are in Canada in 2024, with no shortage of stupidity to come.</p>
  601. <p>I will also point out the sheer foolishness of starting what is meant hypothetically to be a productive discussion with such an approach, although, as I intimated, it gets worse. Here’s a hint, boys and girls of the College of Psychologists and Behaviour Therapists or Analysts (or whatever the hell you call yourself now): don’t begin a negotiation, particularly when you are already backed into a corner, by insulting your would-be partner in play. In this particular case, more specifically: don’t assume that the target of your offer is open to something approximating a bribe, because that is what it was, particularly when all evidence suggests the contrary. In addition: if you are indeed daring and foolish enough to make such an offer, don’t compound your error by cheapening out.</p>
  602. <p>After we dispensed with that offer, something that happened forthwith, with our jaws wide open in amazement, the truth came so painfully out — and this is the main point of this missive: despite pursuing me for nearly 10 years; despite their endless public proclamations about their readiness to dispense justice upon me; despite their insistence of the mavens of the college that I was in desperate need of pretty much a comprehensive psychic restructuring and public shaming — despite my agreement, private and public, to go ahead with exactly that, in pillories and stock, accepting the tar and chicken feathers — there was not a single available “social media expert” available at hand to take on the task!</p>
  603. <p>This could be a consequence of a direct warning I had made in a very public discussion about this matter with my daughter Mikhaila Fuller, posted on my YouTube channel, where I said (with all due and genuine concern for my hypothetical teacher) something approximating: “Don’t take the job! I will make EVERY BIT OF IT public, and in the most broadly distributed sort of way! Millions of people are hungry to watch me be re-educated, friend and foe alike, popcorn in hand, eating up both the scandal and the snack. In consequence, the life of whomsoever is narcissistic, clueless or ideologically-addled enough to take on the task will never be the same!” I meant this whole-heartedly, seriously, and it was (all objections to the contrary) not a threat, but a true warning. The typical person has no idea what it is like to have their identity known to all, on an international scale — I’m speaking here of the hypothetical re-educator — and I regarded it as necessary to offer fair warning to anyone considering the job. It will not be an experience from which recovery will be at all possible.</p>
  604. <p>I don’t know, of course, if it was that specific warning that did the trick. There were plenty of other reasons for someone to be wary. The situation surrounding me in regards to the college is a very deep pit indeed, with a great variety of snakes within it biting every which way, and only a fool or a narcissist of preposterous presumption would plunge into that, regardless of financial recompense or the glories of sticking it to the only conservative psychologist apparently in existence in Canada — or at least the only one foolish enough to make his views known.</p>
  605. <p>There are other blackly comedic elements to this story. I’ll list a few, just for amusement — more seriously, just to indicate the utter shallowness of the case(s) the college is pursuing. First, a reminder: I am on the hook, “ethically speaking,” because I dared to expose the utter lying mendacity of the green climate apocalypse mongers, who have stacked a preposterous economic analysis far too precariously upon some seriously faulty analysis of the vagaries of weather. Even the IPCC admits there is no “climate crisis,” and serious analysts, such as the great Bjorn Lomborg, indicate that the likely worst-case scenario a hundred years hence is that we will be a few degrees warmer than we are now, and slightly poorer, relatively speaking, to what we might have been, in the absence of such change, although still more than 400 per cent richer in absolute terms than we are now.</p>
  606. <p>I said as much on Joe Rogan’s podcast, far and away the most influential media show in the world — the entire transcript of which was then submitted to the delusional green nasties of the college as evidence of my unsuitability to help my clients overcome their obsessive compulsive disorder. How else did I sin, and so egregiously so? I objected vociferously to the brutal, greedy, arrogant sadists of the “gender-affirming” movement, and to the mutilating and sterilizing experimental surgery they so happily conduct on lost and miserable pubescent adolescents. These are, by the way, the very same individuals I predicted to the Canadian Senate in 2016 that would be confused, and dangerously so, by the pathological provisions of the oh-so-compassionate and virtuous Bill C-16, which should have been entitled “Legislation to Convince Vulnerable and Alienated Girls to have their Breasts Sliced Off.” I didn’t imagine then that it could go so far, but — as I said — here we are, and the good guys are apparently on the side of the knife-wielders and their castrating allies and chums.</p>
  607. <p>I also criticized Justin Trudeau, our narcissist-in-chief, and his enabling, complicit henchmen — and in a rather prescient manner, if I do say so myself. Doing so in today’s Canada, even under the nominal rule of the Conservatives, apparently makes me unsuitable for my profession, according to trouble-making basement-dwelling idiot ideologues distributed somewhat randomly around the world, although assiduously attended to by the Canadian college bureaucrats and good thinkers. I also said some rather pointed things both about an obese model who was pretending to be both healthy and beautiful, in the athletic manner that defines and will forever define both swimsuit models and actual sportswomen, and about the manipulators of public opinion and facilitators of her unfortunate and dangerous delusion at Sports Illustrated magazine. Why dangerous? For the same reasons I went after the actress Ellen (now actor Elliot) Page: celebrities in a position to influence young men and women who look to them as role models should not publicize views that would entice them either to do terrible things to their bodies (as in the case of Page and her mutilating surgery) or accept the “body positivity” doctrines that make of the obesity that is clearly unhealthy something to admire and celebrate.</p>
  608. <p>It is precisely for holding such opinions, which are not so much opinions in my estimation as mere statements of the absolutely self-evident, that I am held now by my peer/superiors to be worthy of re-education, if they could only find someone to perform such a delicate, unpleasant and, let’s be honest, absolutely impossible and Sisyphean task. My entire personality would have to be removed and replaced by the weak-kneed ghost of butter-won’t-melt-in-his-mouth Justin Trudeau, or Steven Guilbeault, or Kamala Harris or, horror of all horrors, Jagmeet Singh for such re-education to take hold. That is a comprehensive bit of surgery that would likely kill both host and physician (or at least make both of them wish that they were dead).</p>
  609. <p>I might also inform you of the sorts of questions I put to the college, while the earlier stages of this expensive, time-consuming and damaging charade unfolded. Remember: the right to free speech of one Canadian in five is at stake here (the proportion of regulated professionals in our once fair country), as well as the requirement of Canadians to be served by experts in their domain who are honest and say forthrightly what they believe to be true. I asked them, “by what standards do you accredit your ‘social media experts’? Is that a regulated profession? Are these experts also versed in the complexities of clinical psychology? How else can they improve the professional activities of a psychological practitioner? Is there any concrete, published and peer-reviewed evidence that the tender lessons they purport to provide actually produce an improvement in the behaviour of those they “educate?” By what objective criteria are you going to measure my improvement, in that regard? Are there standardized tests of such progression? How were those standards established, if they exist? — and of course they don’t.” On another, related, tack: “How many complaints have you received about the behaviour of your own members, in relation to your actions concerning me? Compared to how many you have received about the specifics of my behaviour? What have you done about those complaints, given that you are bound by duty to investigate every complaint? If inquiries into your own conduct were rejected, what were the grounds?” etc. etc.</p>
  610. <p>All of those questions are and were, as I well knew, impossible for the college to answer.</p>
  611. <p>First: just as there is no such thing as Santa Claus, and no such thing, as well, say, as a unicorn, there is no such thing as a “social media expert,” as intimated earlier. Even if there were, and there isn’t, there is no such thing as a social media expert who is also well trained as a psychologist — with the possible singular exception of me, at least in Canada, and I am the one on trial! There are also simply no recognized and genuine standards by which such re-education can be judged, not least because the true game is and always has been for me to fail, expensively, such that my licence can be revoked, and my evil hypothetically right-wing voice disgraced, castigated and silenced. There were certainly far more complaints submitted to the college about its own behaviour than complaints submitted about me — if not, college members, make the numbers public, as I also requested — but none of the former class were pursued, compared to about a dozen of the latter. In consequence of all these extremely inconvenient truths, touched upon by my inquiries, not a single one of my questions was answered, despite being submitted in writing, and as part of the ongoing “trial.”</p>
  612. <p>So, that’s where we stand, Canadians. In closing, I am going to outline what I think my esteemed colleagues and self-proclaimed moral superiors at the college are now bound to do, out of options as they now so stupidly find themselves. Unable to find a “social media expert” willing to engage in my re-education, they will appoint one of their own or a minion thereof to take on the task. In doing so, they will attempt to arrange with me “nothing but a heartfelt conversation,” of relatively short duration, which I will still make entirely public, but which will contain nothing but cliched niceties on their part. They will then claim, in their own defence, that all the college wanted all along was nothing but just such a “dialogue” — that all this was just a big misunderstanding, which the evil and touchy Dr. Peterson, such a publicity hound, and paranoid to boot, blew entirely out of proportion.</p>
  613. <p>Mark my words. How do I know they will do this? Because (1) that is the stupidest outcome I can possibly imagine, and, therefore, the most likely, in the increasingly clown-world that Canada has become and (2) because that is what I would do, if I was at my most conniving and malevolent, in their now so uncomfortable position.</p>
  614. <p>The alternative is that the college actually find some poor deluded soul who has lived under a rock for the past 10 years and is blind and deaf enough to take the job, in which case they will do everything they can to make it difficult for me to publicize the process. I swear, however, that there is no way any of this is going to proceed in secret. Secretiveness is the very hallmark of the would-be totalitarian, and I am not going to go along with it. I am one hundred per cent willing to make my part in the re-education process public, warts and all: to say and record everything I believe to be true, spontaneously, without practiced preparation and in the absence of editing, and to release it for general consumption. If the college does anything whatsoever to interfere with my vow to make this public, that is something else vital that must be attended to by the Canadian public: the very people charged with your hypothetical protection are in that case the same actors unwilling to let you know what they, or their agents, are truly up to.</p>
  615. <p>Draw the appropriate lessons, Canucks: Honest people let the light of day shine on their actions. Dishonest people hide in the crevices, fulminating all the while about some necessary secrecy being in the public interest of all concerned.</p>
  616. <p>Mark these words, too, in closing: every single miserable blackly comic bit of this idiot charade will be made available, one way or the other, for the delectation of all interested observers, here and abroad. I suspect, in closing, that the college will in consequence insist that I be re-educated in person, despite them now conducting their own business primarily from the comfort of home. This will be difficult for me, and designed to be so, with my touring schedule and my increasingly frequent habitation in the U.S., as well as making the recording I have promised to undertake more unlikely. This, however, will not stop me. That’s a promise. If I request online meetings with my educator, instead of direct person-to-person instruction, and that request is rejected, that will be for no other reason than production of the aforementioned difficulties. Consider, for a moment, in this regard, the evident proclivity of the members of the college itself to conduct their business from home, particularly in the aftermath of their discomfort with attending their office, after the recent spates of bad publicity. Consider as well the fact that most Canadian government employees do much of their work online and not in person.</p>
  617. <p>I’ve also got something to say to Doug Ford, here, current leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, premier of the province of my residence and, hypothetically and to some degree in practice, an ally of mine, at least ideationally. I have spoken at his house. We have had dinner together, and I find him far preferable to the idiot alternatives of the devastated and certainly deserving of it Ontario Liberal party and whatever the NDP has turned into as of late. However, he appears to have a blind spot when it comes to the truly idiot left. The school boards in this province, particularly in Toronto, have gone completely out of their mind, pushing the worst elements of the rainbow mafia agenda, and fulminating on the gender fluidity front in the most despicable of manners. Ford is an agreeable individual, who wants to be liked, and there is something to be said about a politician who truly wants to be appreciated by his constituents. At least he will work to please them, and that can be a good thing. I also personally observed an admirable degree of humility in the province’s leader. Ford does not have to be the smartest person in the room — something that someone who is not so smart (and I am not speaking of him here) can only manage by surrounding himself with idiots. He has the confidence and the wisdom, perhaps in consequence of managing a family business for so long, to bring aboard and listen to truly competent experts, both within his cabinet and administration and without.</p>
  618. <p>However, agreeable people, even when surrounded voluntarily by those who are competent, can have their blind spots. This is particularly true when it comes to the more pernicious forms of malevolence that the more psychopathic, hiding behind the ideology of compassion, are capable of manifesting. I have noticed the same thing with the Democrats and their leaders in the U.S., many of whom I have met, at least privately (as they tend not to agree to speak with me, when anyone might notice). They have no imagination for evil, and there is a certain amount of that afoot right now — some of which is making itself manifest in the form of the tilt toward authoritarian ideology characteristic of the mid-level bureaucrats in so many degenerating Canadian institutions. This is dangerously true of the education system, both K-12 and university — but also of the governing bodies of the professions, most notably, teaching, psychology, medicine and law.</p>
  619. <p>I have been directly subjected to the tender mercies of the midwits purporting to regulate psychology, but I know many physicians, lawyers and teachers who have been under attack, personal, professional and ideational, by the hypocrites of the woke left. Like many corporate CEOs, oblivious of the danger of the DEI mob and the globalist ESG true believers, he thinks the claims of the progressive left to inclusion and equity and diversity are at worst misdirected and at best genuine in their attempts to make the world a nicer and more welcoming place. Some of this is true. The Democrats I have spoken with, for example, blind to the worst of the resentful leftist radicals, believe that their more extreme counterparts are just trying to push, for example, equality of opportunity. When I ask them why they use a different word — equity; that is, equality of outcome, not opportunity — they invariable handwave, protesting, “I have never met someone who really believes that.” In this day and age, as the cliché goes, such naiveté is inexcusable. The universities are chock full of resentful people, annoyed that the evil capitalists make more money than they do, who really believe that, or are at least willing to act in all manners as if they do. I don’t want special treatment from Ford, or his government. But I do want him to wake up to the danger that he is avoiding, while cozying up a bit too tightly to our narcissist-in-chief PM Justin Trudeau and his juvenile ideologically-possessed minions, or to Olivia Chow, who would make Toronto into Portland, Seattle or Vancouver in a heartbeat if she had her way.</p>
  620. <p>Mr. Ford: are you critical of Justin, and his ideas, or of Jagmeet Singh? Do you believe that sex is assigned at birth, and infinitely malleable, except in the case of homosexuality, which is fixed at conception and absolutely unchangeable no matter what? Do you believe that all the girls who are having their breasts removed (that is hundreds in Canada and thousands in the U.S.) have merely discovered their true selves, having been persecuted throughout history and finally found freedom, or that they are the mutilated, unhappy, sterilized and demolished victims of a particular insidious epidemic of psychopathology? Do you believe that fat and unhealthy is beautiful and athletic, and that those who dare to say otherwise should be prosecuted, fired and shamed? Do you believe, finally, that the production of CO2 is such a catastrophe that the entire West should de-industrialize, just to serve as an example to the world, while China builds coal-fired electrical plants like a house afire, and the Communist authoritarians there extend their dominion over the world?</p>
  621. <p>And if you don’t believe these things — or even believe their opposites, as I do — why are you standing all-too-idly by while those who believe the absolute contrary dominate the education system, propagandize our young people (particularly if female, much to their detriment) and extend the tentacles of their authority over the speech and action of every regulated professional in your province? To say nothing of agitating constantly, publicly and shameful on behalf of the totalitarian Islamic extremists. Sir: you are definitely better than the alternatives, but you are still acting like a progressive, in slow motion. That is exactly what the Conservatives did in the U.K., and look at the truly unhappy and dire state of that country now.</p>
  622. <p>All right, fellow citizens, that’s my update. I’ve said what I wanted to say, regarding the college, and provided what I could of my current insight into the likely further machinations and manoeuvrings of the sad and sorry College of Psychologists or Psychologist and Behavioural Analysts or Therapists or whatever the hell they call themselves so inclusively. I fired a shot over the bow of the nominally Conservative government, which is ultimately responsible for this sorry mess, too, even though I do so with some regret and trepidation, believing truly as I do that the Liberals and (shudder) NDP in this province would certainly be indescribably worse.</p>
  623. <p>I will sign off, finally, with this.</p>
  624. <p>I made the college a fair offer, very publicly, in the pages of this very newspaper, very soon after the Supreme Court handed down its Aug. 27 ruling. There was no evidence whatsoever in the consequent approach of the college negotiators to me that they had considered anything I had written, despite its transparent reasonableness and oh-so-public offering, and certainly none that they had integrated into their hypothetical settlement offer. This is yet more evidence, if evidence is needed, of their essential bad faith and intransigent, punitive, self-righteous bureaucratic stubbornness and blindness. They approached me, instead, with the ultimate in foolishness, compounding their errors, continuing to stumble forward in the blind, counterproductive, wasteful and expensive manner that has characterized their every move for more than 10 years. Then they admitted that they did not have the wherewithal or the ability to undertake administering the very re-education process they have so publicly and continually demanded I submit myself to.</p>
  625. <p>God only knows how it will all end. But it certainly appears, as of the current moment, that the much-vaunted and much-moralized-publicly-about re-education efforts of the Ontario College of Psychologists and Behaviour Analysts have been brought to a shuddering and shameful halt, not least because of the utter indefensibility of their own position.</p>
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  645. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4>Beware your liberal values — those you see as allies are the vultures waiting for your demise, says author Jordan Peterson.</h4>
  646. <p>I have been watching the rising tide of <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/topic/antisemitism">antisemitism</a> for about five years. It first appeared online, manifesting itself in the form of the ethno-nationalist trolling that allowed those who claimed to love their country to find a target for their resentment and rage in the name of patriotism. Then it crept into the so-called real world (although the virtual world is plenty real, folks) in the form of the hypocritical leftist virtue that poses a foundational threat to all that is good, true, meritorious and beautiful.</p>
  647. <p>I have been in a unique position to observe all of this, for someone outside the <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/topic/jewish">Jewish</a> community, because of my practical and entrepreneurial alliance with The Daily Wire, the conservative news and entertainment American communication network. The Daily Wire was co-founded by one Ben Shapiro, perhaps the world&#8217;s bestknown Orthodox Jew, and a good friend of mine.</p>
  648. <p>Because of this, the antisemitic online trolls, particularly on the right, had plenty to say to me — about my subordination to the dictates of <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/topic/israel">Israel</a>, and about the hypothetical impossibility of me ever saying anything negative about the Jewish enterprise; in short, about my capture by the forces of international Jewry. This was of course accompanied with the meme-images of the positively hook-nosed shared by the scumrat cowards, always anonymous, often equipped with genuinely satanic noms de plume and monikers; always derisive, psychopathic to the core, hiding their alliance with evil behind the secrecy that enables the worst of them to spring forth and pollute the landscape of public discourse to the detriment of all. This attack has become much worse in the aftermath of October 7 — particularly when I call them out, as I have been doing on X, where the outright Nazis have been flourishing to an alarmingly increasing degree over the past few months.</p>
  649. <p>I have spent much of my life studying the evils of antisemitism, obsessed as I have been by the events that unfolded in Germany in the decades prior to the Second World War, where the proclivity of the majority to turn against the eternally successful minority realised itself with the dreadful efficiency and industry that only the most advanced European state could manage. I learned plenty from such study, which was simultaneously exposure to the worst excesses of the worst part of the human psyche — mine included. What did I come to understand and realise, over those many years? First and foremost that there is plenty of the resentful and murderous spirit of Cain in each of us, friends — you included. And if you are one of those butter-wouldn&#8217;t-melt-in-my-mouth moral paragons who happen not to think so, then it is even more likely to be true of you.</p>
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  657. <p>What else did I conclude? That the Jews are the eternal canary in the coal mine, and that their persecution signals the downfall of a society. Why? First, the Jews are different, and identifiably so. Second — and worse — they are successful, and differentially so. Let us examine those conclusions, one at a time — but, before doing so, also consider this: any society that turns against the successful is, by definition, doomed. Those who bite the hands that feed them soon starve.</p>
  658. <p>In historically Christian societies, the Jews are not our precious individual selves, and they&#8217;re not family or kin. What role does that leave for them? Many attempted to assimilate in the West, historically (as there are now). They attempted to circumvent their identifiable differences in France, Austria and Germany, among other places, prior to the Second World War. Others maintained their separate identity, most markedly in the case of the Orthodox. Both strategies had their insufficiencies in the medium- to long-term. When the tide of antisemitism rose once again in France in the late 1800s, in the form of the notorious Dreyfus affair, even assimilated Jews began to get nervous and to prepare. Hence the dawn of so-called Zionism: the request for the Jewish state that eventually became modern Israel.</p>
  659. <p>The same blood-red tide of emergent antisemitism made itself known in Austria, somewhat later, in the political movements that served in part as the precursor to the National Socialist horror of Germany. Meanwhile pogroms raged in Eastern Europe and Russia. The Jews were well-integrated into German society, often for many generations, but that fact failed to protect them when the jackbooted thugs began to patrol the streets, as they are beginning to do again now.</p>
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  664. <p>This brings us to the core of the matter: success.</p>
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  671. <p>The Jews are, by any standard, successful — and, worse, disproportionately so. They serve, in fact, as the very archetype of the successful. This makes them a dual archetype, actually — first, of &#8220;the successful&#8221;, and, second, of &#8220;the minority.&#8221;</p>
  672. <p>This is most famously illustrated in the case of Nobel prizes. In the 20th century, Jews garnered about 25 per cent of those awards — a figure that rose to over 30 per cent in the new millennium. This record of accomplishment exists despite the fact that they comprise a mere 0.2 per cent of the world&#8217;s population. Such success is starkly evident elsewhere, albeit in more mundane but still exceptional forms. Sixty per cent of Jews are college graduates, for example, compared to 22 per cent of other Americans. Jews earn two and a half times what is typical for Protestants and Catholics and have family net worths that reflect such disproportion in income.</p>
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  677. <p>What should the poor non-Jews make of such a record? Let us begin with the most relevant blunt fact: the most powerful predictor of achievement and accomplishment in complex occupations, far and away, is general cognitive ability. It accounts, conservatively, for something approximating one third of the variance in such success. The second most powerful predictor, the personality trait &#8220;conscientiousness&#8221;, only manages to account for a comparatively weak five per cent of such vari- ance. Jews do not appear to differ from other ethnic or racial groups in conscientiousness, insofar as that can be measured, but the Ashkenazis have much higher average intelligence — almost a standard deviation, or 15 points, which is roughly the difference, historically, between the average high school graduate and the average recipient of a bachelor&#8217;s degree. That difference alone is enough to account for the differential success of Jews, given the indisputable strength of general cognitive ability as a predictor of life success, which is the single best-documented finding in all of social science.</p>
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  686. <p>Other reasons have been evinced, including the value placed by Jews on education and attainment, the fact that their peers (other Jews) are also likely to be productive and influential, and their proclivity as outsiders for innovation, but these additional factors are unnecessary, unless it can be demonstrated beyond doubt that they add explanatory power, beyond the brute fact of increased average intelligence.</p>
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  695. <p>Don&#8217;t hate others&#8217; success How should the non-Jews respond, most productively, to such a difference? Consider an additional and most practical fact. A society that is concerned with productivity and innovation does well to differentially devote resources to the minority who is most likely to be productive and innovate. This will mean that such a minority will garner a disproportionate amount of the available wealth, opportunity and attention — but it means even more fundamentally that everyone else will benefit, and immensely, from the endeavours of the productive minority. It seems an iron rule that some must be more successful, and even dramatically so, for everyone not to be permanently mired in poverty and strife. In consequence, the proper attitude toward those who are successful because of their ability is gratitude, difficult as that might be to make manifest.</p>
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  704. <p>There is another perspective, however, that can be adopted toward the productive, innovative and successful, other than the grateful, practical and meritocratic — one that requires less moral effort and offers a certain degree of immediate pathological gratification. It is characterised first by an overweening resentment and envy, and second by the turning of destructive impulses toward the productive and innovative minority.</p>
  705. <p>What might be the leitmotif of those who hate the successful? &#8220;Property is theft&#8221; is a cliché worth considering in that regard. Terrible as such a sentiment is in its motivations and consequences, it is insufficient to summarise the state of the modern world, and its gathering ressentiment. We have moved way past such merely Marxist niceties.</p>
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  712. <p>The postmodernist deconstructionists have multiplied the dimensions of comparative oppression far beyond the merely economic. You can now be oppressed — or oppress — on innumerable grounds, including all those that mark any form of group identity: sex, race, ethnicity, age, appearance, physical ability and attractiveness included. We have perfected a veritable cognitive technology of victimisation, devoting much of the resources of the benighted universities, for example, to elaborating that deadly game. What are its basic rules?</p>
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  721. <p>Assume the starkest of dichotomies between oppressor and oppressed, victimiser and victim. Endlessly multiply the dimensions of oppression. Employ the victim/victimiser narrative, simultaneously, to explain and undermine all forms of social enterprise: marriage, family, community, business, state and nation. What is the benefit, psychologically and socially? First, all need for the difficulties of investigation and thought evaporates. When it&#8217;s all oppression and oppressed, everything has been explained. There is no need for further, or indeed any, effort in economics, sociology, political science or politics — even for psychology. All mysteries are solved, in relationship to situation and causality. There are those on top. They have stolen all they have from those on the bottom. The pathway forward, furthermore, has become clear: revenge. It is no small matter to be provided with an explanation of infinite range, conveniently applicable when any complex mystery beckons: why is there any misery at all? Because the &#8220;successful&#8221; have stolen the birthright.</p>
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  730. <p>That is all plenty dark, plenty appalling, but it is by no means all the darkness there is. Once the victimiser/victim narrative is in place, the moralising can begin. That is the next benefit, or payoff, of the aforementioned game. When you accept the story of victimisation, you not only understand everything, you have oh-so-easily and magically become a good person. Who could resist such an offer? Not the youth of our day offered that dual blandishment by the modern Pharisees, scribes and lawyers of the progressive mob.</p>
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  739. <p>Worse, at least for the Jews (but then for everyone else, the successful first among them): if the fact of disproportionate representation is accepted as evidence for the existence of corrupt machination, then the Jews are the most corrupted. This is exactly what makes the Chosen People canaries in the coal mine. Jews are the eternally successful minority. Thus, any society that no longer welcomes its Jews is already 80 per cent of the way to persecuting anyone who is successful.</p>
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  744. <p>And now, something for the Jewish community itself to consider — and as deeply as necessary: the Old Testament corpus itself. The Jews inhabiting any given land all-too-often come to be regarded as an existential threat by their hosts. The eternal reason, as we have seen? Their disproportionate success, and the resentment thereby elicited. The Israelites who are Joseph&#8217;s progeny in Egypt, for example, are eventually enslaved by the same people their efforts and ability saved from famine — and it is in consequence of the propagation of such successful effort. What is happening now has happened forever.</p>
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  753. <p>And what else? The slavish Israelites who Moses attempts to free — descendants of Joseph all — then place themselves in some real peril, within pharaonic Egypt itself, and during the long post-tyranny desert exile, because they will not notice or shake their identification with the tyrants that persecute them. The same is true now.</p>
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  762. <p>Tragically, the Jewish community in the US and elsewhere has identified, in the main, with the purveyors of the oppressor/oppressed narrative. According to the Pew Research Center, among others, seven in ten Jewish adults identify with or lean toward to the Democratic Party — the very increasingly progressive proponents of the story of prosecution and victimisation that explains everything and confers undeserved moral benefit upon its tellers. This pattern of identification was also evident in the UK and Europe, until recent years, when the very antisemitism on the left that is beginning to make itself known in the United States emerged in the older societies of the West.</p>
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  771. <p>This is not only a tilt toward Cain, so to speak (given Cain&#8217;s self-identification as victim, and his consequent transformation into the adversary of the good), but a marked deviation from Jewish tradition, in its deepest sense, as indicated in the Old Testament canon. One of the most remarkable elements of that truly remarkable collection of texts is the insistence by the Israelite prophets that any problems visited by God upon his Chosen People is a consequence of the errors of the latter and not the moral impropriety of the former.</p>
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  780. <p>This means that there is no excuse for playing the victimiser/victim game — even in the aftermath of some terrible historical tragedy; even in the wake of the <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/topic/holocaust">Holocaust</a> itself. Why is that relevant? Because the leftists now predicate their political and ideological conceptualisations on precisely that Cain-like doctrine, proclaiming, explicitly and implicitly, that all those who by group are statistically over-represented in the upper echelons of success are by definition thieves and tyrants.</p>
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  789. <p>And who is mostly so over-represented? Precisely the Jews, as it has forever been. And unfortunately, it cannot be had both ways: it is impossible to simultaneously be the successful and make a case for the identity of success and corruption. And so, here we are: the once-great institutions of higher learning, for example, within which a comparative plethora of hyper-successful Jews once found a welcoming home, have become the very place where Jews now must continually watch their backs.</p>
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  803. <p>I have encountered no shortage of Right-wing troll antisemites. They are as close to demonic as anything I have ever encountered. They sicken me. But they are (for now) a mere disparate and pathetic rabble in contrast to the monolith of the oppression-purveyors on the left. You believed, my Jewish friends, that the leftists hypothetically fulminating against the exploiters of the poor were your allies, forgetting that your disproportionate (and well-earned) success could so easily make you target number one. Just as it has an indefinite number of times in the past. And just exactly as you see it happening now.</p>
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  812. <p>The whole bloody story of victim/victimiser must first be seen for what it is — the moralising machination of the envious and resentful — and then eschewed and abandoned, most particularly by the Jewish liberals, who have by far the most to lose by its embrace. All the diversity, equity and inclusivity that is the modern equivalent of praying in public. All the faux compassion, which is the disguise of the modern wolves in sheep&#8217;s clothing. All the idiot left-over Marxism, which has metastasised into the cancer of modern intersectionality and resentful, destructive postmodernism. All the insistence that success is exploitation; virtue is mere sympathy for the marginalized; bitter demands for reparations; and self-pity and accusation. This will take a lot of incision, much of it personal and painful, but if any of the evil seed remains, the evil fruit will reappear. That is why, by the way, you eat unleavened bread, during the passover.</p>
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  821. <p>Wake up, my liberal Jewish friends. You simply cannot have your cake and eat it, too. Those you thought were your allies are the very vultures waiting hungrily for your carcasses to appear dead in the street — and we are perilously close to that, as I am sure you have become aware. If your community insists upon allying itself with the ideology that tears down success itself — that casts that success as exploitation, oppression and victimization — you will definitely be the first heads on the chopping block. As you have been forever in the past, and are once again becoming now.</p>
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  830. <p>If your success is deserved, so is success itself.</p>
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  839. <p>In consequence, the narrative of the vengeful victim must be shown for what it is: the battle cry of the resentful against the honest, productive and generous. You, my Jewish friends — the chosen people of God — are the archetypes of that latter category, first and foremost. Just as it&#8217;s always been. For better, and for worse. Do not, therefore, play the victim/victimiser game. You will inevitably end up construed as the latter and living as the former.</p>
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  861. <title>Jordan Peterson and Gregg Hurwitz The West’s true enemy is clear. We must strike now before it’s too late</title>
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  878. <h4>No foreign nation should be enabled to infiltrate our societies to destabilise and destroy us. Here are three ways to fight back</h4>
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  880. <span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 0px;">A banner bearing a picture of slain Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah hangs in central Tehran, Iran</span></p>
  881. <p>When your enemies publicly declare that they want to kill you, it might be a good idea to listen.</p>
  882. <p>There is one regime in particular which has done the work of identifying itself as such an enemy.</p>
  883. <p>The <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/09/30/israel-hezbollah-hamas-war-gaza-latest-news/">Islamic Republic of Iran</a> and its <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2024/08/25/greatest-threat-to-peace-in-the-region-is-iran-and-proxies/">terrorist proxies</a> have unequivocally declared themselves devoted to the destruction of the West. Again and again, their intentions have been clearly stated: first to <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2024/09/26/israel-every-right-to-defend-its-borders-hezbollah-lebanon/">destroy Israel</a> and then to move against their true enemy, America, and the <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/08/17/west-arrogance-iran-threat-jew-infiltrate-trojan-horse/">rest of the West</a>. There is no need to accept our claims about the worldview and plans of this regime; their own people and members of the Iranian diaspora speak to that bravely and with moral clarity.</p>
  884. <p>The Islamic Republic is the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world, <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2024/04/14/tehrans-mayhem-cannot-be-tolerated/">distributing massive sums of money</a> to Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and more. Their neighbouring Arab and Muslim states have for years been moving to strengthen relations with Israel, concerned as they are about the influence of the Iranian regime’s <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/03/01/mahsa-amini-mother-mozhgan-eftekhari-iran-election-khamenei/">radical and oppressive views</a>.</p>
  885. <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-46231" style="margin-bottom: -10px;" src="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TELEMMGLPICT000395094699_17277086641100_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqrpfQw2hJyG_yckwxPAr0gmyy-GsNrhPQbLesooHneHs.webp" alt="" width="960" height="600" srcset="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TELEMMGLPICT000395094699_17277086641100_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqrpfQw2hJyG_yckwxPAr0gmyy-GsNrhPQbLesooHneHs.webp 960w, https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TELEMMGLPICT000395094699_17277086641100_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqrpfQw2hJyG_yckwxPAr0gmyy-GsNrhPQbLesooHneHs-300x188.webp 300w, https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TELEMMGLPICT000395094699_17277086641100_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqrpfQw2hJyG_yckwxPAr0gmyy-GsNrhPQbLesooHneHs-768x480.webp 768w" sizes="(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px" /><span style="font-size: 12px; padding-top: 0px; margin: 0px!important;"> Hezbollah fighters attend the funeral of two commanders killed in an Israeli strike WAEL HAMZEH/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock</span></p>
  886. <p>This move towards normalisation and cooperation culminated in recent years in the <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/13/the-abraham-accords-cannot-be-abandoned1/">Abraham Accords</a>, the transformative peace agreement which establishes an influential and productive bloc of economic partnership in the Middle East and serves to stabilise regional and world security.</p>
  887. <p>Why world security? Because the ambitions of the Islamic Republic are by no means <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024/09/26/how-iran-interfere-presidential-election-donald-trump/">limited to their corner of the world</a>. Americans along with other inhabitants of the free democracies need to understand what Arab and Muslim nations have been trying to tell us for years: the Islamic Republic will stop at nothing to attain their goals of disruption, subversion, and domination. To this end, we have seen global coordination on the propaganda front at a shocking level between the foreign actors whose interests are currently aligned in a fundamentally anti-Western manner. The Islamic Republic is directly <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/21/democracy-not-equipped-to-fight-new-pragmatic-axis-evil/">coordinating with Russia and China</a> to back Hamas. They are also working with Russia to evade American sanctions, provide support to the Houthis, and deliver military equipment to Hezbollah.</p>
  888. <p>In concert with such activity, the Islamic Republic is actively and effectively sowing chaos and discord in America and elsewhere. If Israel is a thorn in the side of the <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/30/iran-is-months-away-from-developing-nuclear-weapons/">mad mullahs of Tehran</a>, America is a gigantic redwood whose rootedness in the tradition of human rights and freedoms remains the greatest obstacle to the dominion of radical Islamist ideology. Iran does not have the military prowess or might to wage war directly with America and her allies. Their goal, instead, is to destabilise us from within, and they make clever use of the technologies and freedoms that typify the West to do so.</p>
  889. <p>Aiming for maximum chaos, they fuel the flames on both sides. On the right, they hack the Republican presidential campaign. On the Left, they fund protestors and influencers who shout, “Death to America” and “We Are Hamas,” all too often without understanding whose interests they are genuinely furthering. Islamic Republic operatives have attacked Western infrastructure, seeking to destroy our energy, water, and healthcare systems using the <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/17/russia-china-iran-weaponise-ai-for-cyber-attacks-against-uk/">novel tactics of cyberwarfare</a>.</p>
  890. <p>They collaborate with domestic criminal networks to threaten their critics on American and European soil. Far and away their most effective strategy, however, is the PSYOPs campaigns waged through our ubiquitous social media platforms. Their manipulations are deployed covertly, aided by social media anonymity and weaponised through secret algorithms that profit off outrage, hate, and polarisation. The Islamic Republic’s plan to radicalise the West on social media has enjoyed particularly stunning success with more youthful citizens.</p>
  891. <p>Young people who get their news primarily through TikTok hold opinions far outside the norm when it comes to America, Israel, and Jews. American women between the ages of 18-34 have an unfavourable view of America of more than 50% above the norm. Their ideas about Israel and Jews follow suit. Members of this demographic rely on TikTok to a much more extreme degree than others. The dire effects this produces are no mere accident: Iran, partnering with Russia, and China, has been waging a covert war through platforms such as TikTok to <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/19/tiktok-risks-turning-a-whole-generation-into-anti-semites/">weaponise antisemitism</a> and to destabilise America and the West – not least through promulgation of the victim/oppressor narrative which holds that every human and institutional relationship is governed by power alone.</p>
  892. <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-46247" style="margin-bottom: -10px;" src="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TELEMMGLPICT000179878476_17277092045990_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqtGQB12KHxxQCrwnTZkX0nwgWqwm85JEWpGVhFb46TTg.webp" alt="Protesters burn an American flag and a U.S. one-hundred dollar bill during a demonstration on the anniversary of the U.S. embassy seizure, in Tehran, Iran" width="960" height="600" srcset="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TELEMMGLPICT000179878476_17277092045990_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqtGQB12KHxxQCrwnTZkX0nwgWqwm85JEWpGVhFb46TTg.webp 960w, https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TELEMMGLPICT000179878476_17277092045990_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqtGQB12KHxxQCrwnTZkX0nwgWqwm85JEWpGVhFb46TTg-300x188.webp 300w, https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TELEMMGLPICT000179878476_17277092045990_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqtGQB12KHxxQCrwnTZkX0nwgWqwm85JEWpGVhFb46TTg-768x480.webp 768w" sizes="(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px" /><span style="font-size: 12px; padding-top: 0px; margin: 0px!important;"> Protesters burn an American flag and a U.S. one-hundred dollar bill during a demonstration on the anniversary of the U.S. embassy seizure, in Tehran, Iran</span></p>
  893. <p>There is always a place for peaceful protest and criticism of any nation or leader. However, it is clear that the Western pro-Palestinian movement’s messaging apparatus – and much of its momentum – has been fomented, supported and echoed by the Islamic Republic, not least through cyberwarfare, funding, and PSYOPs campaigns such as those led by the Singham network. If a glowing neon arrow is required to connect the dots, here is Ayatollah Khamenei himself directly tweeting his support of American protestors. There is virtually nothing more damning that could be said about such campus activity.</p>
  894. <p>The slogans being shouted by those who barricade and blockade universities, bridges and streets are those of the Islamic Republic and its terror proxies. When buildings, monuments, and homes are defaced, the clichés spray-painted so enthusiastically and self-righteously are those of the Islamic Republic and its terror proxies. Mass rape and hostage torture are alternately denied and celebrated, acts of self-immolation and “revolutionary suicide” depathologised and glorified as political tactics, and cries of “Intifada, intifada, coming to America” and “Gas the Jews” ring through encampments and marches. Violent revolutionary rhetoric such as, “You don’t get to choose how we resist,” or, “By any means necessary,” does not square with American values, rules of engagement, or the admirable, courageous, and time-honoured traditions of the American Civil Rights movement. The strategies and objectives that accompany and underlie the Islamic Republic’s propaganda and covert actions could not be more incompatible with those of any culture that truly values the rights of women and minorities, free expression and vigorous debate, and liberty of faith.</p>
  895. <p>Unlike everyone under the Islamic Republic of Iran, Americans and those in the West are entitled to free speech – even entitled to hate who they wish to hate. One of the most profound manifestations of such rights is the opportunity and responsibility to evaluate and criticise the ideas and actions of others – including self-declared enemies – and identify those offensives designed to undermine the very rights that allow us to think and speak freely in the first place. No foreign nation should be granted the opportunity to infiltrate the West through nefarious means to destabilise and destroy us. Nonetheless: the Islamic Republic continues to do precisely that. Such strains of subversive and toxic influence must be identified, repudiated, and eliminated.</p>
  896. <p>Here are three concrete suggestions toward such an end:</p>
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  898. <li style="text-indent: -25px; padding-left: 20px!important; margin-bottom: 10px!important;">Westerners who further the aims of the Islamic Republic by breaking the law – making true threats, defacing property, or assaulting citizens or law enforcement – should be arrested with minimal possible force and prosecuted.</li>
  899. <li style="text-indent: -25px; padding-left: 20px!important; margin-bottom: 10px!important;">Face coverings should be illegal when worn to intimidate, menace, or terrorise. They allow agitators to hide in order to indulge their worst instincts. And in anonymising their wearers, face coverings insulate them from any consequences in the public square and preclude legitimate engagement within the free marketplace of ideas. Masks are a hallmark of the KKK, not of peaceful protestors.</li>
  900. <li style="text-indent: -25px; padding-left: 20px!important; margin-bottom: 10px!important;">Post-partisan legislation like America’s PATA – which calls for increased transparency in our social media platforms while still protecting freedom of speech – must be formulated and passed.</li>
  901. </ul>
  902. <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-46249" style="margin-bottom: -10px;" src="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TELEMMGLPICT000353129682_17277082231210_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqwMpl-Jpdv5EMZZkofEupHP4Xpit_DMGvdp2n7FDd82k.webp" alt="" width="960" height="603" srcset="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TELEMMGLPICT000353129682_17277082231210_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqwMpl-Jpdv5EMZZkofEupHP4Xpit_DMGvdp2n7FDd82k.webp 960w, https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TELEMMGLPICT000353129682_17277082231210_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqwMpl-Jpdv5EMZZkofEupHP4Xpit_DMGvdp2n7FDd82k-300x188.webp 300w, https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TELEMMGLPICT000353129682_17277082231210_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqwMpl-Jpdv5EMZZkofEupHP4Xpit_DMGvdp2n7FDd82k-768x482.webp 768w" sizes="(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px" /><span style="font-size: 12px; padding-top: 0px; margin: 0px!important;"> Masks are worn at pro-Palestinian protests demonstrating against the current Israeli military operation in Gaza Heathcliff O&#8217;Malley</span></p>
  903. <p>We have entered a time of massively accelerating change, hurtling headlong through the unknown. We are exploring new and old modes of thinking – some courageous, some horrifying, some promising. Despite broad consensus in the West on many issues, we have been entranced into believing that we simply cannot agree on anything. A great number of our systems, institutions, organisations, and corporations profit off this very polarisation. Distrust is high.</p>
  904. <p>With so much hate and paranoia, many find it difficult to determine who the West’s real enemies are. And we have been enticed and encouraged by bad foreign actors and hate-profiteers to believe it’s one another.</p>
  905. <p>However, we have unassailable evidence of the truth right in front of us: the Islamic Regime has declared itself an enemy of the West.</p>
  906. <p>It is high time we take them at their word.</p>
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  915. <title>Senate Speech: The Case for Using Ketogenic and Plant-Free Ketogenic Diets to Treat Chronic Illness</title>
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  927. <description><![CDATA[My name is Mikhaila Fuller. I’m co-founder and CEO of Peterson Academy, an online higher-education platform and host a podcast with over a million and a half subscribers. I&#8217;ve spent 14 years researching autoimmunity because I was dying from it....]]></description>
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  929. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">My name is Mikhaila Fuller. I’m co-founder and CEO of Peterson Academy, an online higher-education platform and host a podcast with over a million and a half subscribers. I&#8217;ve spent 14 years researching autoimmunity because I was dying from it.</span></p>
  930. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When I was 2 I started to limp and at 7 I was diagnosed with </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">juvenile rheumatoid arthritis in 37 joints. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">At age 8</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">I was put on injectable immunosuppressants. At 12 I was diagnosed with severe depression and put on antidepressants. At 14 I was diagnosed with idiopathic hypersomnia &#8211; a fancy definition for chronic fatigue and could barely get out of bed. My hip and ankle were replaced when I was 17, from the arthritis that wasn’t managed by the medications I was on, and I spent a year on OxyContin limping around on what felt like broken bones trying to stay hopeful and not kill myself. I went to university for biomedical science when it became apparent that nobody in the medical system could help me, and the “lifesaving treatments” I was on weren’t saving my life. </span></p>
  931. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When I was 23 I completely changed my diet, removing processed foods and only ate whole foods, primarily meat, and my life changed rapidly. I felt like I had stepped out of a hell I didn’t know I was trapped in, into heaven. It turned my world upside down.</span></p>
  932. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Then I had to get off of the medications I was on. Antidepressant withdrawal, that neither me nor my doctors knew existed, was worse than the opiate withdrawal I had been through after I was treated with OxyContin. After I stopped taking the 8 medications I was on and had a baby, my autoimmune symptoms and depression started sneaking back in. Willing to do anything to not be sick, I tried eating only meat, and by that I mean eating beef salt and water only, knowing beef was the one food that didn’t contribute to my arthritis and depression. Eating only meat put my arthritis into remission again in 6 weeks and my depression into remission after 5 months. I’ve only been eating beef and lamb for 7 years now in order to keep my symptoms in remission. I am not on any medication, I have no symptoms of disease, I am in complete remission, after spending 16 years being medicated. </span></p>
  933. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’ve spent 9 years trying to get the medical community to take this seriously. The plant free ketogenic diet I’m on, nicknamed the lion diet, has gone viral on TikTok, and has over 500k people following across social medias. The number of google searches for these ketogenic diets has skyrocketed since 2018. I have groups online with over 30 thousand people who follow the exact same diet as me for autoimmunity and mental disorders that they’ve been unable to treat. These people are putting their diseases into remission after decades. This way of treating disease has garnered international attention from the Times to Fox, to SkyNews Australia. </span></p>
  934. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The problem is, most people don’t know that what they’re ingesting and exposed to is making them sick, and neither do their healthcare providers. When you’re diagnosed with a mental or autoimmune disorder, diet and the state of your gut isn’t even mentioned. If it is brought up, you’re ostracized.</span></p>
  935. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the leading theories in understanding chronic illness is increased intestinal permeability, which you can measure with zonulin levels in lab work. In a healthy digestive system, the gut lining serves as a barrier, allowing nutrients to pass through while keeping harmful substances out of the bloodstream. However, because of the high carb recommendations and processed foods we’re exposed to and currently encouraged to consume from the food pyramid and through our doctors, our diet damages the gut barrier, which causes particles from the gut to “leak” into the bloodstream. A lot of the chemicals and preservatives in processed foods we consume are actually illegal in other countries.</span></p>
  936. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Lion Diet a plant free ketogenic diet is an extreme and limited version of the ketogenic diet which has a well-documented history of success in treating chronic conditions. It has been used for decades to manage epilepsy, particularly in patients resistant to medication. Before medication was available, it was the only treatment for epilepsy, but since antiepileptics were produced research basically stopped into ketogenic diets that treat a myriad of psychiatric and autoimmune diseases. Another infiltration by pharmaceutical companies. </span></p>
  937. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Given the connection between increased gut permeability &#8211; a result from food and environmental exposure in our modern age, inflammation, and psychiatric illness, the ketogenic approach—when stripped down to its most elemental form in the plant free ketogenic diet the Lion Diet—presents an even more targeted intervention. The result of this dietary intervention is not just metabolic stabilization, but a reduction in immune-driven inflammation, which is often at the root of both physical and mental illness.</span></p>
  938. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I spent years so livid at the medical industry that I wouldn’t go into a hospital. How dare I be treated with medications and end up losing joints when dietary intervention works? How dare these medical doctors tell me there was nothing I could do? I would never be where I am today without this diet. I truly believe I would have died. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Treating chronic disease caused by the environment and food without looking at diet first should be considered malpractice. </span></p>
  939. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I am not suggesting the average person does this extreme version of a ketogenic diet. I am specifically suggesting that this diet is researched as a potential treatment for autoimmunity, and psychiatric disorders, with the goal of eventually healing the gut and reintroducing more healthy low carb fruits and vegetables, and that the ideological war on meat needs to end. </span></p>
  940. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’ve seen tens of thousands of people see complete remission in as little as 6 weeks. Most drugs don’t work that fast. No drug fixes the root cause.  </span></p>
  941. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Approximately 1 in 5 Americans are on psychiatric medications for psychiatric illness, and approximately 1 in 10 has an autoimmune disorder. I believe all these millions of people could be symptom free with proper dietary interventions ranging from low carb, to ketogenic, to plant-free ketogenic diets like my diet depending on the severity of the illness. Dietary intervention is what doctors should suggest before putting people on medications that do not treat the underlying problem, some of which cause horrible dependence making them nearly impossible to get off of. </span></p>
  942. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">My request, shared by millions of people using these diets to treat themselves, is for the government to fund studies on ketogenic and plant-free ketogenic diets as potential treatments for autoimmunity and psychiatric disorders.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> There are only a few studies out on this because of the lack of funding. One study shows remission and treatment of Crohn’s disease which is a terrible intestinal autoimmune disorder that can result in people using colostomy bags for the rest of their life.  Another study shows remission of anorexia. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Unless people start being treated with dietary interventions using these ketogenic diets, and the food pyramid prioritizes meat and low carb whole foods so that people can avoid becoming chronically ill in the first place, America is going to get fatter, sicker, more mentally ill and more expensive. If the government funds these studies, America could be at the forefront of these scientific discoveries.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Thank you very much for your time, it’s an honor to be here.</span></p>
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